The Khanpur MLA Pranav Singh ‘Champion’ met his Jhabreda counterpart Deshraj Karnwal at his residence on Sunday. The visit is being seen as a reiteration of the end of the rivalry between the two which saw intermittent escalation during the past year.
On Sunday, the Khanpur MLA arrived at the residence of the Jhabreda MLA in Roorkee.
The two MLAs who were rivcals some time ago hugged each other on Republic Day. In such a situation, it is being stated that the enmity between the two has turned into friendship on Republic Day. It will be recalled that 2019 saw controversies erupting due to the verbal duel between the two MLAs. The duo had also also lodged cases against each other on different grounds in the high court. Last year, after the intervention of the chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the two had apparently forgotten their differences but the situation escalated again.
Later, Champion was expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party for a period of six years after a video clip of him using abusive language while dancing with firearms in his hands in a purportedly drunk state went viral. However, on January 2, the two MLAs held a joint press conference stating that the they had buried the hatched and that there was no bad blood between them. The visit of the Khanpur MLA to the home of his Jhabreda counterpart on Republic Day is being viewed as a positive gesture.