BJP's Col Sonaram, who candidature has riled Jaswant Singh and his supporters, filed his papers from Barmer seat in Rajasthan. Misa Bharti, who was accompanied by her father RJD chief Lalu Prasad, submitted her nomination from Patliputra in Bihar for her maiden bid to enter Lok Sabha.
Nominations for the fourth and fifth phases will close tomorrow.
Fighting his maiden Lok Sabha election from his home state Jammu and Kashmir, Union Health Minister Azad was flanked by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and state Congress chief Saif-uddin-Soz as he filed his papers at the election office in Kathua.
Corporate Affairs Minister Pilot filed his nomination from Ajmer Lok Sabha seat in Rajasthan, where so far 147 candidates have filed nominations for 20 LS seats. Sachin's mother Rama Pilot also put up her papers as a substitute candidate from Ajmer.
In UP, Rashtriya Parivartan Dal president D P Yadav today filed nomination from Sambhal.
In Madhya Pradesh, Congress' P C Sharma filed nomination from Bhopal.
In the fourth phase election will be held on April 12 in five seats---three out of 14 seats in Assam, lone seat in Sikkim, one out of two seats in Tripura. In the fifth phase, polling will be held for 122 seats in 13 states on April 17.
In Kerala, the nomination papers of Congress nominee and Union Minister Shashi Tharoor was today accepted in Thiruvananthapuram constituency.
According to Chief Electoral Officer, total number of nominations received for the 20 Lok Sabha seats in the state that will go to polls on April 10 in third phase was 328. Last date for withdrawing nomination in this phase is tomorrow.