MGVK Bhanu, Pallab Lochan Das file nomination for Tezpur Lok Sabha Constituency

Tezpur, March 25, 2019:

Former bureaucrat MGVK Bhanu and Assam’s Labour Minister Pallab Lochan Das were among the nine candidates who filed their nominations on Friday to contest the ensuing Lok Sabha elections in Assam's Tezpur Lok Sabha Constituency. The two are expected to go head-to-head in the upcoming elections as the fight for the Tezpur Lok Sabha seat heats up.

Altogether nine candidates filed nomination papers on the last day today for the Lok Sabha elections to the 9-Tezpur Parliamentary Constituency which will go to polls on the first phase to be held on April 11. The candidates filed their nominations before the Returning Officer for Tezpur HPC and Deputy Commissioner Sonitpur, Narsing Pawar.

The seven other candidates who filed their nominations today are Mahendra Orang of Voters’ Party International (VPI), Mahendra Bhuyan of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), independent candidate Iqbal Ansari, Ranvijay Kumar Rai of Bahujan Mukti Party (BMP), Bijoy Kumar Tiru of Adivasi National Party of Assam (ANPA), Ram Bahadur Sonar of National People’s Party (NPP), and Krishna Hari Paul of All India Hindustan Congress Party.

Independent candidate Ziabur Rahman Khan had filed his nominations on Friday last which takes the total number of nominations filed for 9-Tezpur HPC to ten.

The nominations will be scrutinized on March 26. The last date of withdrawal of nominations is March 28.

It may be mentioned that sitting Tezpur MP R P Sarmah resigned from the BJP after he not chosen by the party to contest the ensuing elections.