NEW DELHI, June 23: As the 3 pm deadline for filing nominations for the July 14 Presidential poll approached, there was a last minute rush of applicants.The day ended with a total of 64 nominations being filed with the Lok Sabha secretariat, including those of Vice-President K R Narayanan and former chief election commissioner T N Seshan.

About 33 nomination papers were filed today, but only those of Narayanan, Seshan and three others -- Narendranath Dubey Adik, Madhavender Kumar Sharma and Mithilesh Kumar -- were found to be in order with the mandatory 50 proposers and seconders each.

The BJP top brass today filed a set of nomination papers supporting Narayanan's candidature. Senior BJP leaders Atal Behari Vajpayee and Murli Manohar Joshi were among those who proposed Narayanan's name for the country's highest office. Earlier, the UF, the Congress and the SP had filed one set of nomination papers each supporting Narayanan.

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