I saw the sneak peak again and the reason Pritam gave for Puneet nominating Puneet is the captaincy task between Upen and Gautam, which was five weeks ago!
Now If I remember correctly Puneet did not exert any force to remove Upen in the task but by Pritam's own admission at the WKW that week, he said that Punz had told him that captain Gautam he bane ga. So how does that equal to Pritam being influenced to support Upen? When Upen himself said that both Pritam and Gautam did not make any real attempt to remove him.
Secondly, I remember quite vividly that it was Karishma and the BG who convinced Pritam to act in favour of Upen. Not Puneet.
Pritam's nomination is not wrong. But the reason he gave is stale and weak. Considering that after that captaincy incident in the past five weeks...he has bitched and plotted with Punz per his convenience, knowing fully well what a vile man he really is.
I feel like after his wife's visit and this WKW, Pritam in order to prove that he's not with Punz made a desperate and hasty attempt. And while doing so ended up blaming Puneet for his own actions as well. It just did away finally with his sacha acha aadmi facade and revealed concretely that he was always playing a game.
It's ironic how this is the same guy who once commented about Gautam ke iss aadmi ko game se oopar uthna chahiye. While In fact Pritam has been playing one since the longest time now. Irony just died a painful death.