Champion eyeing BSP ticket for wife: Karanwal

DEHRADUN

: In yet another episode of the two sparring

Uttarakhand

MLAs, Jhabreda’s Desraj Karanwal on Wednesday said that

Kunwar Pranav Singh

“Champion” of Khanpur was eyeing a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ticket for his wife Divyani Singh for the Meerapur assembly seat (in UP), where a bypoll is scheduled in the next six months.

Karanwal contended that this is why the latter was asking for things like “replacing the photo of Gandhi with one of Ambedkar”.

On Wednesday, the Jhabreda legislator recorded his statement before a committee headed by MLA Khajan Dass, who scrutinized the news clippings, videos and other documents furnished during the hearing. However,

Champion

did not turn up for the hearing. According to Dass, he was busy with campaigning.