Prajwal Revanna, the MP from Karnataka’s Hassan, has been suspended from the Janata Dal (Secular) party, two days after a case of sexual harassment was registered against him.
Karnataka former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy, Revanna’s uncle, on Tuesday, said that the Hassan MP will remain suspended from the party till the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, completes its probe on the case.
Meanwhile, JD(S) core committee president GT Devegowda said, “We welcome SIT against Prajwal Revanna. We’ve taken a decision to recommend our party’s national president to suspend him from the party till the SIT investigation is completed.”
Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, was booked by the Karnataka police on Sunday for sexually harassing and intimidating a woman who worked in their household.
‘No protection’
In a strongly worded statement, HD Kumaraswamy said that the party would not protect Revanna despite him being a part of the family.
“We are not going to protect him, we will take severe action but the government’s responsibility is more. Not only as an uncle but as a common man of the country we have to move further. This is a shameful issue, I am not protecting any person,” Kumaraswamy said as he addressed reporters.
Slamming Congress for dragging his and HD Deve Gowda’s name through the mud, Kumaraswamy said, “This is the manipulation of Congress to destroy the image of our family. What is the role of Dewegowda Ji or me? We are not responsible for all those things. This is the individual issue of Prajwal Revanna,” adding that he is not in touch with his nephew.
Kumaraswamy also said that Revanna will be suspended from the party if the SIT probe finds him guilty.
What is the case?
A video clip, allegedly showing Prajwal Revanna, surfaced on social media, a day after the second phase of Lok Sabha elections concluded on April 26. Fourteen out of 28 seats from Karnataka went to poll in this phase.
The explicit video was allegedly shot by Revanna and was circulated widely in the Hassan constituency.
Following this, a woman lodged a formal complaint accusing the MP of sexually assaulting her multiple times between 2019 and 2022.
The woman also claimed that Revanna had misbehaved with her daughter and held “vulgar conversations” with her.
In the complaint, the woman also named Revanna’s father HD Revanna, saying that he sexually harassed her when his wife was away.
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Prajwal Revanna suspended from JD(S) moments after uncle HD Kumaraswamy denied ‘protecting’ him
