‘Is Prajwal’s Face Seen?’ Kumaraswamy Blames Shivakumar For Sleaze Video Row As Pressure Mounts On JD(S) sattaex.com

Karnataka’s deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar is behind Prajwal Revanna’s sex tape controversy, HD Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday, adding that he should be sacked.

“What is the proof? Is Prajwal’s face seen in the videos? Still we will take action on moral grounds, Kumaraswamy added, hours before the JD(S) core committee meeting in Hubbali.

The former CM’s statement came minutes after Union home minister Amit Shah said the BJP favours a probe in the case and pointed out that their alliance partner JD(S) is also set to take a step at a party meeting.

“It is very serious, we cannot tolerate it. We want to ask Congress that despite being in power, why hasn’t the government acted yet? Priyanka (Gandhi Vadra) ji should ask their chief minister and deputy chief minister,” said Shah.

Speaking to reporters in the morning, Shah said the BJP stand is clear on the issue — that it is with the “matrushakti” (mothers or women).

“The BJP’s stand is clear that we stand with the ‘matrushakti’ of the country. I want to ask Congress, whose government is there? The government is of Congress party. Why they have not taken any action till now? We do not have to take action on this as this is a law and order issue of the state, state government has to take action on it,” he said.

Prajwal Revanna, sitting member of Lok Sabha from Hassan in Karnataka, is the grandson of former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch H D Deve Gowda. He was the only JD (S) leader to win in 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Hassan, a family political borough.

Prajwal’s father HD Revanna, eldest son of Deve Gowda, was minister in the cabinet led by his younger brother H D Kumaraswamy, who headed the Congress-JD (S) alliance government, in 2018-19.

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