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Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing for an over­haul of the ex­ist­ing process for fil­ing nom­i­na­tion pa­pers, de­scrib­ing it as “ar­cha­ic.”

Pan­day, who had kept her cards close to her chest on which seat she was con­test­ing, made the com­ment as she filed nom­i­na­tion pa­pers yes­ter­day for Cou­va North, the con­stituen­cy her late fa­ther and for­mer prime min­is­ter, Bas­deo Pan­day, served for 34 years (1976-2010).

Af­ter com­plet­ing the al­most 30-minute-long nom­i­na­tion process, Pan­day - flanked by sev­er­al PF can­di­dates and for­mer ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Dr Adesh Nanan, who served un­der the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress ad­min­is­tra­tion led by her late fa­ther- said the sys­tem need­ed re­vamp­ing.