Filing of nominations for 128 Lok Sabha seats, spread over 16 states closed today.

Of these, 121 seats include all the 28 Lok Sabha constituencies in Karnataka, 20 in Rajasthan, 19 Maharashtra, 11 each in Odisha and Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Madhya Pradesh, seven in Bihar, six in Jharkhand, four in West Bengal, three in Chhattisgarh and one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Manipur.

These constituencies will go to the polls on the 17th April. The remaining seven seats, of which three seats are in Assam, two in Goa and one each in Sikkim and Tripura will go to polls on 12th April.

Scrutiny of nominations for all these constituencies will take place tomorrow. 29th of March will be the last date for withdrawal of nominations in these constituencies.

Filing of nominations for 32 Assembly constituencies, in Sikkim and 77 in Odisha also ended today.