The Election Commission of India (ECI) has rejected 428 out of 1,488 nominations filed for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The nominations were rejected after the scrutiny of the papers submitted by the candidates which went on till late Saturday evening. As a result, a total of 1,060 nominations have been accepted.
Of the total 893 candidates who filed their papers, 268 had been rejected owing to multiple nominations filed by the candidates themselves as well as those filed by their supporters leaving 625 candidates in the fray after the scrutiny process was completed. Malkajgiri, the largest constituency in the State accounted for highest number of rejected nominations at 115 out of 177 with just 62 accepted.
