Priya Dutt files nomination papers in North Central Mumbai

September 25th, 2009 MUMBAI - This is a situation late film star and Congress leader Sunil Dutt may never have imagined. His two children, Congress MP Priya Dutt and Samajwadi Party general secretary Sanjay Dutt are ranged on opposite sides of the political divide to support their party candidates for the Maharashtra assembly elections.

September 25th, 2009 MUMBAI - This is one situation late film star and Congress leader Sunil Dutt may not have imagined. His two children, Priya and Sanjay Dutt are campaigning for opposing parties in the Maharashtra assembly polls -- and that too in the same constituency.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's wife Manyata Thursday voted for the Congress candidate, instead of the Samajwadi Party nominee for whom her husband has been campaigning. Manyata said she had cast her vote for her sister-in-law Priya Dutt who is contesting elections on the Congress ticket from Mumbai North Central constituency.

April 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress candidate from Mumbai North-Central constituency, Priya Dutt, knows how to swim and also sink - courtesy her qualification as a scuba diver! Interacting with journalists during a poll meet, she spoke about her aquatic passion. Later her aides said she had acquired the skill in the Maldives and holds a certificate entitling her to pursue her hobby anywhere in the world.

April 10th, 2009 MUMBAI/ LUCKNOW - A number of politicians representing various political parties filed nomination papers for the upcoming general elections. Sanjay Nirupam, a nominee of the Congress party filed his nomination papers from North Mumbai Constituency in Mumbai.

April 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress candidate Priya Dutt will file her nomination papers from the North-Central constituency of Mumbai today. On Monday, she failed to file her nomination papers as she stuck in traffic jam.

April 8th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Former Miss India and Samajwadi Party candidate Nafisa Ali on Wednesday filed her nomination papers from Lucknow Lok Sabha seat. Hundreds of SP workers accompanied her on way to the district magistrate office where she submitted her nomination papers.

April 7th, 2009 BHAGALPUR/ GWALIOR/MUMBAI - Candidates of various political parties have filed their nomination papers from their respective constituencies. Shahnawaz Hussain, a candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), filed his nomination paper from Bhagalpur in Bihar.

April 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress leader Priya Dutt on Monday failed to file her nomination papers, as she stuck in traffic jam. Priya is a Congress candidate from Mumbai North-Central parliamentary constituency.

April 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress leader Priya Dutt stopped over at the Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai today ahead of filing her nominations for the North Central Mumbai constituency. She won the same seat in 2004.

January 15th, 2009 MUMBAI - Unmindful of objections from his family members, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt Friday night announced he would contest the next parliamentary elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket. He also said there was no dispute in his family over the issue.

January 13th, 2009 MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - Sibling tensions spilled into the political arena as Congress MP Priya Dutt Wednesday voiced disappointment that her film star brother Sanjay Dutt had chosen to be a Samajwadi Party candidate, sparking a war of words between the two parties. While Priya Dutt also took pains to say in Mumbai that she would always support her brother's professional or personal decisions, Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh was quick to score a political point.

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI/MUMBAI - Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Wednesday said Congress MP Priya Dutt should not be disappointed about her film star brother Sanjay Dutt joining his party as he was supporting the central government. 'Priya should not be disappointed (about Sanjay joining the Samajwadi Party) and should know that it is because of our support that the Congress government is surviving at the centre,' Amar Singh told reporters in New Delhi.

January 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Denying any rift in the family, Congress MP Priya Dutt Wednesday said that although she was 'disappointed' that her film star brother Sanjay Dutt had chosen to contest the Lok Sabha elections on a Samajwadi Party ticket, she would always support him. 'There is a disappointment that Sanjay has joined the Samajwadi Party.

January 12th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Samajwadi Party is planning to pit its Maharashtra unit chief Abu Asim Azmi against Priya Dutt from the Mumbai Northwest Lok Sabha constituency after naming her brother and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt or his wife Manyata as its candidate from Lucknow. The prestigious seat in Mumbai was earlier represented by Priya Dutt's father, late Sunil Dutt of the Congress, for five terms and briefly by the Shiv Sena which won it in 1996 and 1998.