By IANS
New Delhi : Pratibha Patil, the candidate of the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA), Saturday filed her nomination papers for next month's presidential election.
Accompanied by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and other UPA and Left leaders, she filed two sets of papers at the Lok Sabha secretariat in parliament house.
The first nomination had 70 people proposing and seconding her candidature. The number in the second nomination was 75.
More than a dozen independents also filed their nominations. All these would be scrutinised from July 2. The election takes place July 19.
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