Election rallies have been on for weeks, but nothing captures the immediacy of an election like the sight of candidates filing their nomination papers.
Please click on the images to view some leading nominees filing their candidatures on Monday, January 31, 2022.
IMAGE: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav files his nomination for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in Mainpuri. Photograph: PTI Photo
IMAGE: Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal, accompanied by his wife and party MP Harsimrat Kaur, files his nomination for the Punjab assembly elections from the Jalalabad constituency at the sub divisional magistrate's office in Jalalabad. Photograph: PTI Photo
IMAGE: Punjab Lok Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh (retd) being felicitated by Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat as he files his nomination from the Patiala constituency. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal files his nomination from Lambi.
At 94, Mr Badal is the oldest candidate ever to fight an election in India, overtaking V S Achuthanandan, the Marxist veteran, who contested Kerala's 2016 assembly election when he was 92.
Mr Badal won his first election in 1957. He has won 10 consecutive assembly elections, the last five from Lambi.Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Another view of Akhilesh Yadav filing his nomination for the Karhal assembly constituency, which his Samajwadi Party has won since December 1993. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi files his nomination for the Bhadaur assembly constituency in Barnala. Photograph: ANI Photo
IMAGE: Ajitpal Singh Kohli, the Aam Aadmi Party candidate for the Patiala Urban constituency, greets Punjab Lok Congress chief Captain Amarinder Singh (retd) before filing his nomination. Photograph: ANI Photo
Photographs curated by Anant Salvi/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Mahipal Soni/Rediff.com
