Overview
- Returning officer Ram Lok Khatana declared Gupta elected and issued the certificate in Chandigarh with Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan present.
- The Oct 24 by-election has been scrapped after independent Navneet Chaturvedi’s nomination was thrown out for allegedly forging signatures of 10 AAP MLAs.
- A Ropar court sent Chaturvedi to police custody until Oct 23 on forgery, impersonation and conspiracy charges after a 28-hour tussle over custody between Chandigarh and Punjab police.
- AAP’s strength of 93 in the 117-member assembly had made an actual poll outcome a foregone conclusion for its nominee.
- With Gupta’s induction, all seven of Punjab’s Rajya Sabha seats are now held by AAP.