In Assam, over 200 candidates filed their nomination papers on Thursday for the second phase of Assembly polls scheduled to be held on 11th of next month. Friday is the last day of submission of nominations. Scrutiny of nominations will be taken up on Saturday. The last day of withdrawal on nomination papers for this phase has been fixed on 28th of this month. Earlier,96 candidates filed their nominations for this phase.Among others who filed nominations today included former Chief Minister and leader of opposition Prafulla Kumar Mahanta at Samaguri and Barhampur constituencies in Nagaon district.The Asom Gana Parishad President Chandra Mohan Patowary filed his nomination paper at Dharmapur constituency in Nalbari district .Several sitting ministers of the ruling Congress and MLAs also submitted their nominations on Thursday.Meanwhile, the campaigning for the first phase of elections is slowly picking up in almost all the 62 Assembly segment going to polls on 4th of next month. AIR Guwahati correspondent reports that due to strict monitoring of model code of conduct and election expenditure by the Election Commission -appointed Observers, the campaign remained low key so far. However, it may pick-up within next few days with arrival of Star campaigners of different parties.