Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh and Mukul Roy, Actor-turned-politician Jaya Bachchan and BJP's Vinay Katiyar were among eight candidates who filed their nomination papers on Saturday for the Rajya Sabha biennial polls. The last day for filing of nominations for the March 30 elections is next Monday.

AICC Spokesman Abhishek Singhvi and three journalists- Kunal Ghosh, Nadimul Haque and Vivek Gupta, all Trinamool Congress nominees – are the other candidates who filed their
papers.