JDS’ Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna (File).
Bengaluru:
Janata Dal (Secular) lawmaker Sharangouda Kandkur has demanded the suspension of celebration MP Prajwal Revanna amid a row over express movies – allegedly displaying the Hassan MP sexually assaulting a number of girls – that started circulating a day after voting in his constituency.
In a two-page letter made public Monday morning, Mr Kandkur informed celebration patriarch and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda the JDS had been left ”embarrassed by the circulating movies, and it damages the repute of each you and your celebration.”
Mr Revanna – who’s Mr Deve Gowda’s grandson – is just not presently in India. He left for Germany Saturday morning, shortly after the movies emerged on-line. On Sunday he filed a police criticism claiming the clips – there are reportedly 1000’s – had been doctored. The movies, he claimed, had been being distributed to ”tarnish his picture and poison voters’ minds”.
This was a day after the Congress authorities led by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah mentioned a particular group had been set as much as examine the case.
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The JDS, which has allied with the BJP for the 2024 Lok Sha election, has refused to remark pending a whole inquiry.
Nonetheless, senior celebration chief and former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy – who’s Mr Deve Gowda’s son – mentioned there could possibly be no query of forgiving anybody who had dedicated a criminal offense.
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He additionally mentioned the celebration had nothing to do with Mr Revanna apparently fleeing the nation. ”If he has gone to a international nation getting him again is their (the particular investigative group) accountability. What ought to I say… SIT will get him, don’t be concerned.”
The scandal broke final week after a lady filed a police case towards Mr Revanna, accusing him of sexual assault. The case was filed at a police station in his constituency.
She alleged she had been sexually abused a number of occasions between 2019 and 2022. The clips circulating present extra girls and they’re more likely to come ahead to file circumstances too.
The row has additionally snowballed right into a political squabble between the JDS and the BJP, with a number of the nationwide celebration’s leaders distancing themselves from the state celebration and calling for a rethink. S Prakash, the BJP state unit’s chief spokesperson, mentioned, ”We, as a celebration, don’t have anything to do with the movies and neither do we now have any feedback to make…”
The ruling Congress, in the meantime, has additionally gotten concerned, after studies some BJP leaders had informed their celebration’s state boss, BY Vijayendra, of the clips again in December. They’ve questioned their rival’s resolution to discipline Mr Revanna regardless of information of the movies.
Fourteen of Karnataka’s 28 Lok Sabha seats, together with Hassan, voted within the second part final week. The remaining 14 are as a consequence of vote within the third part on Might 7, however the JDS is just not contesting any of those seats. As per the seat-share settlement, the celebration – which broke from the Congress to hitch the BJP in October – fought solely three in south Karnataka.