No question of ending alliance with JDS says Bommai, accuses state of delaying investigation for Vokkaliga votes
Prajwal Revanna's alleged sex-tape scandal will not impact the BJP's alliance with JDS, former CM Basavaraj Bommai declared on Friday. “We are for inquiry. But he has been able to flee the country because of the Congress government’s insistence on delaying action for the Vokkaliga votes in the earlier phase of elections” he told ET.
The scandal broke last week when pen drives of obscene videos allegedly involving Prajwal Revanna – former PM HD Deve Gowda’s grandson and the NDA candidate from Hassan – were distributed all over his constituency, days before the Lok Sabha election took place there. He has since fled the country. Karnataka government’s Special Investigative Team (SIT) issued a look out notice for him on Thursday.
The government, Bommai added, could have put out a red alert notice against him after he absconded, or even applied for revoking his passport. “It has not taken any of these steps yet, which is very telling,” he said.
The former chief minister is making his Lok Sabha electoral debut from the Haveri Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday, in a region where the BJP has been in power since 2009, but Congress now holds seven out of eight assembly seats.
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