Varun Gandhi, Kumar Viswas, cricketer Kaif enter poll fray

The last date of filing nomination is April 19. The scrutiny will take place on April 21 and withdrawl of nomination will be allowed till April 23. Other prominent candidates were Rewati Raman Singh, Nand Gopal Gupta, Nirmal Khatri and Kamal Kishore.

In Bihar, Lok Janshakti Party president Ramvilas Paswan filed his nomination from Hajipur Lok Sabha seat Hajipur (SC) will go to the polls on May 7 along with seven other seats in Bihar. Paswan will face sitting JD(U) MP Ramsundar Das and Sanjeev Prasad Tony of Congress.  Renuka Rawat, sitting Congress MP from Nainital K C Singh Baba and Samajwadi party's Avtar Singh were among 13 candidates who filed their nominations today in Uttarakhand, where all five sets will go to polls in this phase.  

Renuka filed her papers from Haridwar where she is pitted against former BJP chief minister Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank and AAP's Kanchan Chaudhry Bhattacharya, a former DGP.