BJP expels gun-toting U’khand MLA for 6 yrs

New Delhi, July 17

The BJP today expelled its Uttarakhand MLA Pranav Singh Champion for six years for "indiscipline". The decision follows the viral video of the legislator brandishing guns and dancing at a house party.

Uttarakhand BJP chief Ajay Bhatt last week served a show-cause notice on Champion (who was already suspended from the party), asking why he should not be expelled.

Champion was suspended for three months after he was accused of threatening a journalist. BJP's media in-charge and Rajya Sabha member Anil Baluni said the party has taken cognisance of his serial public misconduct and expelled him for six years.

Champion is no stranger to controversies. He was in the news sometime ago for publicly indulging in a war of words with another MLA, challenging him to a wrestling bout. He was among the Congress MLAs who had rebelled against Harish Rawat and crossed over to the BJP. — TNS