Updated April 8th, 2019 at 15:50 IST

IN PICS | Sanjay Dutt joins Priya Dutt, Urmila Matondkar accompanied by husband as the Congress leaders file nominations for Lok Sabha elections

Congress candidates from Mumbai, Priya Dutt and Urmila Matondkar files their nomination for the Lok Sabha polls on Monday as the members of their families also supported them.  IN PICS | Sanjay Dutt joins Priya Dutt, Urmila Matondkar’s husband accompanies her as the Congress leaders file nominations for Lok Sabha elections

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Congress candidates from Mumbai, Priya Dutt and Urmila Matondkar files their nomination for the Lok Sabha polls on Monday as the members of their families also supported them.  

READ: Sanjay Dutt Issues Statement On Rumours Of Him Contesting Lok Sabha Polls, Issues Public Appeal. Read Here

Sanjay Dutt joined his sister as she arrived at the Bandra Collector Office in the afternoon. Priya will be contesting from Mumbai North Central constituency. Congress leader and fomer MLA Baba Siddique was also spotted along with the sibling duo, who flashed the victory sign for the media persons. 

Sanjay had earlier cleared the air that he was not going to contest in the upcoming general elections, after reports that he was to fight the polls from Ghaziabad had surfaced. The actor had asserted his support for his sister then. 

Urmila, too, filed her nomination as a candidate from Mumbai North constituency. It's not clear if her husband Mohsin Akhtar Mir accompanied her at the time of nominations, but he did turn up to support her during campaigning.

 READ: ‘I Have Been Misquoted’: Congress Leader Urmila Matondkar Issues First Statement After Complaint Over Comments On Hinduism

The actor-turned politician recently sparked a row with a comment allegedly terming Hinduism as the ‘most violent religion in the world.’ However, she later clarified that she was ‘misquoted’ and the allegations were 'bogus and baseless.' 

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Published April 8th, 2019 at 15:30 IST