Bengaluru:
A intercourse scandal allegedly involving Karnataka MP Prajwal Revanna has turn into a speaking level forward of the third part of Lok Sabha elections with each the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (Secular) attempting to allay voter’s fears. Mr Revanna, grandson of JDS chief and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, immediately filed a criticism claiming that the movies being circulated are doctored.
The Hassan MP in his criticism stated that the movies are morphed and being circulated to “tarnish his image and poison the minds of voters.”
He filed the FIR a day after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah referred to as for a particular investigation group to probe the scandal.
“The government has decided to form a special investigation team in connection with Prajwal Revanna’s obscene video case,” Mr Siddaramaiah stated in a submit on X late Saturday night time.
Obscene video clips are circulating in Hassan district, the place it seems that girls have been sexually assaulted, the chief minister stated.
“In this background, the Chairperson of the Women’s Commission (Dr Nagalakshmi Chowdhary) had written a letter to the government to conduct an SIT investigation. This decision has been taken in response to their request,” Mr Siddaramaiah stated.
Mr Revanna left for Germany on Saturday morning.
The JDS had shaped an alliance with the BJP in September final 12 months after breaking ties with the Congress.
But the BJP has distanced itself from Prajwal Revanna amid the controversy round his purported intercourse tapes.
S Prakash, the chief spokesperson of BJP’s state unit, stated, “We, as a party, have nothing to do with the videos and neither do we have any comments to make on the SIT probe announced by the state government into the alleged sex scandal involving Prajwal Revanna.”