Cheesed off with the-oft repeated criticism about using luxury vehicles during his much-hyped Purvachal Yatra in pursuance of his campaign for carving out a new state out of eastern Uttar Pradesh, ousted Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Thursday, in a bizarre move, took off his trousers at a press conference here.

This was his way of showing that he had developed wounds on his lower limbs on account of the long journeys he had undertaken on foot as a part of his yatra.