Chandigarh, Oct. 15 -- A day after Jaipur resident Navneet Chaturvedi was booked for allegedly forging the signatures of party MLAs in his Rajya Sabha bypoll nomination papers, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab president Aman Arora accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of shielding him from arrest and making attempts to "steal" the election.

Addressing a press conference here, Arora alleged that Chaturvedi tried to reach the Rajya Sabha using forged signatures of AAP legislators. The Punjab Police on Monday stated that multiple FIRs were registered after several AAP MLAs alleged that their signatures on nomination papers submitted by Chaturvedi for the RS bypoll were not genuine.

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