The Election Commission on Wednesday had issued the notification for Presidential election, scheduled to be held on July 18.

According to the source, 11 candidates have filed the nomination. However, one nomination was rejected due to incomplete documents.

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This will be the 16^th Presidential election.

As per the notification, the nominations can be filed till June 29 and the scrutiny of the papers will be held on June 30. The last date for withdrawing from the electoral fray is July 2. The counting will take place on July 21.

Meanwhile, a meeting of opposition leaders, called by Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, was held here on building consensus on zeroing in on a joint opposition candidate. The opposition parties agreed to field a joint candidate for the upcoming Presidential elections in the meeting.

The term of incumbent President Ram Nath Kovind ends on July 24.