Srinagar, March 20 -- With the Election Commission issuing notification for general elections to the 2-Srinagar parliamentary constituency, the Returning Officer (RO) for the constituency, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary, has issued guidelines to candidates for filing of nomination papers.

The guidelines state that nominations for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat can be filed at the office of the Returning Officer from 11 am to 3 pm adding that number of proposers allowed are one for candidates of national and state parties and 10 for unrecognized parties and independents.

It further states that the maximum number of persons allowed at the time of filing of nomination by a candidate are five including the candidate whereas the maximum number of ve...