Prajwal Revanna received the Hassan Lok Sabha seat in 2019 and is contesting it this time too
Bengaluru:
A lookout discover has been issued in opposition to Janata Dal Secular MP Prajwal Revanna amid the political storm over the sexual harassment allegations in opposition to him. Karnataka House Minister G Parameshwara mentioned Revanna has to look earlier than the Particular Investigation Crew probing the matter on the earliest and indicated that he could also be arrested if he doesn’t flip up. Earlier, the SIT had turned down his request for seven days’ time to look earlier than the investigators.
Thirty-three-year-old Revanna, grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, is on the centre of an enormous row after a girl accused him and his father, HD Revanna, of sexually harassing her. The girl, who has instructed police that she labored as a cook dinner on the Revannas’ residence, has additionally accused the JDS MP of harassing her daughter over video calls. An enormous cache of express visuals, allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna, have circulated on the Web.
“They’ve to look. If they do not, they’d be arrested,” the minister mentioned, referring to Prajwal Revanna and HD Revanna.
Prajwal Revanna’s lawyer Arun G had earlier mentioned there are numerous dimensions within the case and that required time to be addressed. “He has mentioned that he wants 7 days to come back and cooperate with the investigation. I really feel accommodating seven days shouldn’t trigger any critical issue to the investigation,” he mentioned.
The lawyer asserted Prajwal has mentioned the movies are morphed. In a put up on X, the JDS MP has mentioned, “As I’m not in Bangalore to attend the inquiry, I’ve communicated to CID, Bangalore, via my advocate. The reality will prevail quickly.”
The allegations have, in the meantime, sparked a large political row within the election season. The JDS has tied up with the BJP for the polls and the allegations in opposition to Prajwal Revanna have prompted the Congress to launch an all-out assault in opposition to the BJP.
Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has focused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned his silence. “The chief on whose shoulder the PM places his hand and will get himself photographed, the chief for whom the PM himself goes to marketing campaign 10 days earlier than the election. He praises him on the stage. Right now, that chief from Karnataka is absconding from the nation. Simply listening to about his heinous crimes makes my coronary heart tremble. He has ruined the lives of a whole bunch of ladies. Modi ji will you stay silent?,” she mentioned in a put up on X.
Union House Minister Amit Shah has hit again. He has mentioned the BJP can’t stay with those that commit atrocities in opposition to ladies and questioned why the Congress authorities in Karnataka didn’t act in opposition to him earlier.
“We (BJP) have an alliance with the JD(S). Now (Prajwal) Revanna’s CD has come. They (Congress) thought they will nook the BJP. I’m making it clear right here BJP can’t stay with those that commit atrocities in opposition to ladies,” the House Minister has mentioned. “You didn’t provoke any motion until the elections within the Vokkaliga belt had been over. You probably did politics and allowed him (Prajwal Revanna) to flee. If in case you have guts, inform the reality. Due to you, a heinous prison fled the nation,” he has added.
The JDS first household belongs to the Vokkaliga group, which holds appreciable sway in south Karnataka. Fourteen Lok Sabha seats the place Vokkaliga voters play a key function went to polls on April 26.
