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The videos of firing by Champion and reaction of Umesh.J. Kumar have become viral and got national attention. None was seriously injured in the skirmishes on Sunday evening. Kunwar Pranav \u2018Champion\u2019 was arrested and taken to Dehradun while Umesh.J. Kumar was detained at Roorkee. Both were produced before the judicial magistrate,amidst tight security as senior police officials camped there. Five luxury vehicles used by \u2018Champion\u2019 used in the attack were also seized by the police. In another related development Haridwar District Magistrate Kamendra Singh in an order suspended nine fire arm license issued in the name of Champion his wife and son. He has also issued notices to three other persons were with him during the attack on the recommendation of the Haridwar police.<\/p>\n
Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh \u2018Champion\u2019\u00a0 four time legislator from Khanpur assembly segment who is known for his brash ways. \u00a0He had a duel with Desraj Karanwal, another BJP legislator from Jhabreda assembly segment of Haridwar during 2019. The ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) found itself in an acute embarrassing situation following the public fued between two of its\u2019 party legislators from Haridwar district which crossed the limits of public decency and democratic norms resulting in public insults, name callings and even threatening physical violence against each other.<\/p>\n
Both, then BJP legislators \u00a0made waves by publicly threatening each other. Both of them were at loggerheads as their rivalry started when\u00a0Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh \u2018Champion\u2019 wanted his wife to become the Haridwar Zila Panchayat chairperson but the move was resisted by Deshraj Karanwal.<\/p>\n
Deshraj Karanwal had accused\u00a0Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh \u2018Champion\u2019 of being a fake \u2018Champion\u2019 and alleged that\u00a0Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh has not played even \u2018Gilli-Danda\u2019 and claimed to be a \u201cChampion\u2019. He charged him with having fake sports and educational credentials. He even disputed that\u00a0Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh\u2019Champion\u2019 belongs to erstwhile royal family of Landhaura.<\/p>\n
Kunwar\u00a0Pranav\u00a0Singh challenged Deshraj Karanwal for a physical duel and claimed that he would make him bleed with only a single slap. He also threatened him of tearing him apart in a physical fight. He also announced that he would wait for Deshraj Karanwal at Nehru Stadium, Roorkee on a particular day where Champion turned but his challenger did not turn up. Later, \u2018Champion\u2019 was suspended by BJP for six years as his video title \u201cTamancha pe Disco\u201d in which he was seen dancing with guns in his hand and abusing went viral. He was also accused of threatening and abusing a journalist.<\/p>\n
Champion who was an independent legislator, later joined Congress but jumped the fence to join BJP with ten other legislators in 2016 in a bid to topple the Harish Rawat government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018Gangs of Khanpur\u2019 plays out in Haridwar, both, MLA, Ex-MLA held S.M.A.KAZMI Dehradun , Jan 27 The scenes were straight from Bollywood thriller \u2018Gangs of Wasseypur\u2019 in which the gang rivalries were explicitly depicted in the badlands of Bihar in reel life. But what transpired in \u2018Devbhoomi\u2019 Uttarakhand that too in the Hindu holy district …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,33,1284,91,56,59],"tags":[3074,3073,3071,3070,3069,102,3072],"class_list":["post-6350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-international","category-international-political-national","category-national","category-politics","category-uttarakhand","tag-gangs-of-khapur","tag-gangs-of-wasseypur","tag-haridwarpolice","tag-kunwarpranavsinghchampion","tag-umeshjkumarkhanpurlegislator","tag-uttarakhand","tag-uttarakhandpolitics"],"yoast_head":"\n