206 candidates in fray for Delhi LS polls

With the filing of nomination papers for Lok Sabha polls in Delhi concluding today, as many as 206 candidates including prominent leaders Kapil Sibal, Harsh Vardhan and Rajmohan Gandhi are in the fray for seven constituencies here.
BJP leaders Harsh Vardhan and Meenakshi Lekhi, Congress' Ajay Maken, and AAP's Ashutosh and Rajmohan Gandhi are also in the fray.
Even as the final figure is yet to be released, Election Commission officials said 307 nominations have been received from 206 candidates.
In 2009 Lok Sabha polls, 221 candidates had filed nominations while 160 had contested the election.
Bhojpuri actor-singer Manoj Tiwari, actor Biswajit Chatterjee, and sitting Congress MPs Krishna Tirath and Ramesh Kumar were among a host of leaders from BJP and Congress and TMC who filed their candidature on the last day of filing nominations for elections today.

Bhojpuri singer Tiwari, who is contesting election on BJP ticket, filed nomination for North East Delhi constituency where sitting Congress MP Jai Prakash Agarwal and AAP's Anand Kumar are also other two formidable contenders.

Against Tirath, Rakhi Birla of AAP and BJP's Udit Raj are contesting.
Yesteryear's Bollywood actor and TMC candidate Biswajit Chatterjee is contesting from New Delhi constituency against Congress MP Maken, BJP's Lekhi and AAP's candidate Ashish Khetan.
Sitting MP from South Delhi Ramesh Kumar also filed his nomination.
The scrutiny of nominations will take place on March 24 and candidates can withdraw their nominations till March 26.