TMC approaches Election Commission over The Great Khali’s citizenship after the wrestler campaigns for BJP. Details here

After champion wrestler ' Great Khali' on Friday turned up for mination filing of BJP candidate for Javpur constituency Anupam Hazra, drawing huge crowds that cheered him as he travelled in an open jeep, Trinamool Congress has w written to Election Commission raising concern over Great Khali's citizenship.

ANI reported that 'TMC has written to Election Commission of India over wrestler Great Khali campaigning for BJP's Javpur MP candidate,Anupam Hazra on April 26. letter states, 'He(Khali) holds US citizenship, refore,a foreigner shouldn't be allowed to influence minds of Indian electors'

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People came out in droves to see India's first world heavyweight wrestling champion in WWE, whose actual name is Dalip Singh Rana. "We are old friends," Hazra said about Khali, who said BJP candidate was a like a "bror" to him.

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' Great Khali', towering at seven feet and one inch, waved and smiled at colourful procession that travelled along with him and Hazra from Ranikuthi to Alipore Survey Building, where mination was filed, covering a distance of almost six kilometers.

"When he (Khali) came to kw I am fighting elections, he said he will come... It is because of our bonding that he came. He has never been to any such event earlier," said Hazra, a professor at Vishvabharati University.

"I will come whenever and wherever he calls me," Khali said, as he urged people to vote for Hazra. Hazra also said presence of Khali is t an attempt to "intimidate" ruling Trinamool Congress, of which he was an MP from Bolpur constituency.

He was expelled from TMC for anti-party activities in January this year. BJP, which he joined three days after expulsion from TMC, minated him from Javpur Lok Sabha constituency.

Hazra is up against Trinamool's filmstar candidate Mimi Chakraborty and CPI(M)'s Bikash Bhattacharya, a senior lawyer and a former Kolkata mayor.

On Khali, Hazra ded that he h met him five-six years back in Delhi at an event, and y have been close friends since n.

"When he came to kw that I am contesting elections again, Khali said he will be in India for a week and will come to Kolkata to take part in my campaign," he told PTI.

(With Inputs from PTI)