Jaitley, Farooq, Ambika Soni file nominations

With just two days to go, BJP leader Arun Jaitley, Union ministers Farooq Abdullah and Preneet Kaur and Congress veteran Ambika Soni were among the prominent candidates who filed their nominations today for the April 30 election to 89 seats in the seventh phase.
Jaitley, accompanied by his wife and daughter, filed his papers in Amritsar, while National Conference president Farooq Abdullah entered the fray for Srinagar Lok Sabha seat.
Abdullah was accompanied by his son and Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and state Congress head Saifuddin Soz.
71-year-old former Union minister Ambika Soni submitted her nomination from Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha constituency.

Union Minister for State for External Affairs and three times MP Preneet Kaur filed her nomination papers from Patiala. She was accompanied by her husband Amarinder Singh, who is Congress candidate from Amritsar, her daughter Jai Inder Kaur and son Ranninder Singh.
SAD nominee Deepinder Singh Dhillon also filed his nomination papers along with AAP party candidate Dharamvir Gandhi.

Sitting SAD MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal filed her nomination papers from the Bathinda Lok Sabha seat. She was accompanied by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Deputy Chief Minister and husband Sukhbir Singh Badal.
Harsimrat's brother and Cabinet Minister Bikarm Singh Majithia filed papers as the covering candidate.

Nominations will close on April nine for this phase.