In Maharashtra, while the process of scrutinizing the 10423 nominations filed by 7,199 candidates for the coming assembly polls is still on, the campaigning is gaining momentum. The Nationalist Congress Party will begin its campaign in Solapur today with Chief Sharad Pawar and other party leaders like R. R. Patil and Chhagan Bhujbal attending the rally. CPI(M)General secretary Prakash Karat will be touring the state to campaign for the party candidates. Shiv Sena has already started its campaign across the state. Sena executive Uddhav Thackeray would be visiting Vidarbha, Konkan, Marathwada and Western Maharashtra to address the party's election rallies. Shiv Sena spokesperson Neelam Ghore said a joint election manifesto of Shiv Sena and BJP for the October 13 assembly elections would be released by Uddhav Thackeray and BJP General Secretary Gopinath Munde in Mumbai tomorrow on the occasion of Dusshera. The last day for withdrawal of nomination is September 29. The Election Commission has validated 167 nominations for 58 seats during scrutiny yesterday. The scrutiny for the two remaining seats will be done on September 29. The commission has cleared 58 candidates from Congress, 35 from NCP, 19 from BJP, 27 for Trinamool, 11 from Peoples Party of Arunachal and 3 from JDU. Another 14 independent candidates have also been cleared by the commission. For the first time in the history of Arunachal elections, the whole of Tawang district is expected to elect its three MLAs without contest. Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu is also likely to be elected unopposed as no candidate other than him has filed nomination in his Mukto constituency. In Haryana, 1433 candidates are left in fray for the ensuing Assembly elections. After the scrutiny of nomination papers a spokesman of the Election Commission said that the nomination papers of 432 candidates have been rejected. A total of 1865 candidates have filed their nominations for 90 seats of Haryana.