BJP issues notice to Khanpur MLA Pranav Champion

Dehradun | Saturday | 17th February, 2018

Summary:

After joining the BJP, he had been fielded from Khanpur, where he registered a comfortable win in last year’s assembly elections. Champion had spoken out against the inclusion of a BSP leader in the committee formed to probe the Haridwar district panchayat scam alleging that this was done at the behest of a ‘powerful minister from the district.’ If it is not satisfactory, then he would face the consequences as per the party’s constitution.”Champion, a four-time MLA was among the Congress legislators who had turned rebel in March 2016 by turning against the n CM Harish Rawat. We will wait for his answer. The notice follows an incident on Friday when Champion went uninvited to a function attended by chief minister Trivendra Rawat at Doon University and tried to give a memorandum to the chief minister but was publicly snubbed by the chief minister.While Champion remained unavailable for comment, BJP state chief Ajay Bhatt said: “The notice has been given to Champion as the preliminary scrutiny of media reports in which he has spoken against the government, clearly shows a case of indiscipline..