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Sharad Yadav, the sitting MP, will be seeking re-election from the constituency.

Babulal Marandi, Jharkhand’s first chief minister and president of Jharkhand Vikas Morcha-Prajatantrik (JVM-P), filed his nomination from the Dumka Lok Sabha constituency on Friday.

Raking up the Dec 16 gang rape in Delhi, Modi said the Congress has done nothing to ensure women’s safety and Sonia Gandhi, despite being a women, is misleading other women.

Sonia Gandhi urged Maoists to shun violence and join the mainstream of the society.

Voting takes place from April 7 to May 12. Results will be announced on a single day on May 16.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from her family bastion of Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, seeking a fourth consecutive term and the third from the constituency in the coming Lok Sabha elections in India.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi caused a bit of flutter within his party by appearing to praise his cousin and Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi during remarks made while campaigning in his constituency, Sultanpur in Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday for the coming Lok Sabha elections.

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are said to be spending over Rs4,000 million each on their advertising campaigns.

The manifesto will demand lowering of eligibility age for contesting the Lok Sabha polls from 25 years to 21 years.