Summary:
BHOPAL: In a subdued affair, Congress candidate Neelanshu Chaturvedi and BJP's Shankardayal Tripathi filed their nomination papers for the Chitrakoot assembly by-elections on Monday. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, he was in-charge of the Chitrakoot assembly segment.Another interesting candidate filed the nomination papers for the bypoll. Both candidates are greenhorns and have not contested the assembly elections or Lok Sabha polls before. Shankardayal Tripathi filed his papers accompanied by a district BJP general secretary and some party workers. She added that locals told her to contest the elections and she approached Shahsi Karnawat.BSP candidate Maqsood Ahmad and Samajwadi Party candidate Shakir Khan also filed their nomination papers..