Ludhiana, Oct. 16 -- Ashok Parashar Pappi, MLA from Ludhiana Central constituency, has filed a complaint against Navneet Chaturvedi, president of the Janata Party, at division number 2 police station, alleging that Chaturvedi forged his signatures as well on the Rajya Sabha nomination papers. Chaturvedi is already facing multiple FIRs following complaints filed by MLAs of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

He had submitted two sets of nomination papers as an independent candidate for the October 24 Rajya Sabha byelection in Punjab. In the first set, filed on October 6, he listed 10 AAP MLAs as proposers without their consent or signatures. The second set, filed on October 13, contained the same names along with signatures that were later ...