The ruling BJP in Uttarakhand has suspended Khanpur MLA Kunwar Pranav Singh Champion from the party for three months on charges of indiscipline, a party spokesman said on Sunday.

Champion’s suspension on Saturday night came after a preliminary report prepared by the state BJP Disciplinary Committee found him guilty of gross indiscipline. It also took cognizance of the legislator’s alleged threats to a journalist.

Recently, a video had gone viral in which Champion appeared to be threatening an electronic media journalist. He was also in the news for publicly making fun of BJP MLA from Jhabreda Deshraj Karnawal.Champion, who wanted a ticket for his wife for the Lok Sabha polls from Haridwar, had described then sitting Member of Parliament from the seat and now Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank as a “migratory bird”.