NEW DELHI - Perhaps he is hoping for a galloping win. Manish Kunjam, the Communist Party of India (CPI) candidate from Maoist-insurgency hit Bastar in Chhattisgarh, rode a horse to file his nomination papers!

By the time he reached the office of the district returning officer at Jagdalpur town, an impressive procession was following him.

Kunjam, a former legislator from the Kota assembly seat, has his task cut out - to stop Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Baliram Kashyap from getting elected from there for the fifth time in a row.

Who trots ahead, time will tell.