Heavy rush on last day for filing nomination papers for Hubballi-Dharwad Corpn. polls

With too many aspirants, parties had no option but to put off decision-making

With the main political parties finalising their candidates list for many of the wards just a day before the last day of filing nomination papers, there was heavy rush to file nomination papers for the elections to the Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation on Monday. With too many ticket aspirants and too much pressure from different quarters, the political parties were left with no other option than putting off the decision-making, in a bid to avoid rebellion. However, while they succeeded in pacifying the rebels in many wards, they could not succeed in others resulting in rebel candidates filing their nomination papers on the last day as independent candidates. After a process that dragged on for almost a week, the Congress announced its list on Sunday. And, the BJP chose to announce its list in a phased manner keeping the contentious ones for the last day. The Janata Dal (Secular) and te Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) too are releasing their lists in a phased manner.