Pranav Singh


Kunwar Pranav Singh 'Champion' is a Member of the Legislative assembly of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly in India. He is currently suspended by the Bharatiya Janata Party leadership after his video goes viral in which he was dancing with guns and abusing. He was previously associated with Congress. He is elected for the fourth consecutive time and is one of the senior Member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. He has also served as a cabinet-rank official in the previous state governments under the Chief-Ministership of N. D. Tiwari, Vijay Bahuguna & Harish Rawat.

Career

Singh contested from Khanpur at the 2012 legislative assembly election as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. In May 2016, along with eight other legislators, he revolted against the Harish Rawat-led INC government in the State. Around this time, he quit the INC and joined the BJP. He was disqualified as a legislator under the anti-defection law only to be elected from the BJP after the 2017 election. The Bharatiya Janata Party on 11 July 2019 extended the suspension of Singh Champion for an indefinite period because he appeared in a controversial video which showed him dancing with guns. The video went viral on social media, causing embarrassment to the party.