Janata Dal (Secular) and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said, "...We are not going to protect him. We will take severe action, but the government's responsibility is more." He further said more information would be provided after the JD(S) 's Core Committee meeting.
Kumaraswamy also attacked the Karnataka-led Congress government and said that the Congress party was manipulating facts to destroy the image of his family amid the controversy over the 'obscene' video case against his nephew and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna.
Kumaraswamy said that his party and the family are not responsible in any capacity for Revanna's actions. Revanna is the grandson of former Prime Minister and JD(S) patriarch Deve Gowda.
HD Kumaraswamy on Prajwal Revanna Sex Scandal
"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. I am not in contact with him (Prajwal Revanna). It is the responsibility of the government to bring him before the law. Morally we have decided to make some decisions," Kumaraswamy told reporters.
Kumaraswamy further said that he is not seeking any protection for Prajwal Revanna, but it is for the Karnataka government to present the facts and truth about the issue.
"We are not going to take any protection, 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. We have fought against these kinds of illegal things. This is a serious issue. Who is running the government, they have to expose the real picture and the ground reality has to be exposed by the government and not me," Kumaraswamy said.
Prajwal Revanna was booked in an alleged sexual harassment case on April 28 following complaints by his former housekeeper. The case has been registered under sections 354A, 354D, 506, and 509 of the IPC on charges of sexual harassment, intimidation and outraging the dignity of a woman.
As per the complaint, the victim has claimed that both Prajwal Revanna and his father HD Revanna had sexually assaulted her. The complainant further claimed that when Revanna's wife was not at home, he touched her inappropriately and used to sexually assault her.
The Karnataka government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the alleged obscene video case against MP Revanna. The SIT, headed by IPS officer Vijay Kumar Singh, and including DG CID Suman D Pennekar and IPS officer Seema Latkar have started the investigation in the case.
Prajwal Revanna is the candidate of the BJP-JD(S) alliance in Hassan in Karnataka which went to the polls on April 26 in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.