15
Oct
Chandigarh (Gurpreet Singh): The Rajya Sabha election in Chandigarh took an unexpected turn on Tuesday when all nominations, except that of Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Rajinder Gupta, were disqualified during scrutiny — a process marred by intense political tension, allegations of fraud, and a jurisdictional tussle between two state police forces. The centre of the storm was independent candidate Navneet Chaturvedi, who now finds himself facing serious allegations of document forgery. His nomination papers reportedly listed several AAP MLAs as proposers, but party legislators claim their signatures were falsified without consent. As scrutiny at the Vidhan Sabha secretariat concluded, Chaturvedi’s…
