Shashi Tharoor on Revanna sex scandal: Will echo in rest of Lok Sabha polls, BJP to have tough job explaining
Shashi Tharoor has said the alleged sex scandal involving JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna will echo in the remaining phases of the Lok Sabha polls not just in Karnataka but elsewhere as the BJP will have a tough job explaining its position after having campaigned for the accused in the elections. Prajwal and his father H D Revanna, former Karnataka minister, were booked by police on Sunday on charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation based on a complaint from a woman, who worked in their household.
Prajwal is the grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda and nephew of Karnataka former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Faced with unrelenting attack from the Congress and other political parties, the JD(S), an ally of the BJP, suspended Prajwal.
Asked whether the scandal would affect the BJP in the polls, Tharoor said, «The fact is that the gentleman is an ally of the BJP. The BJP has campaigned for him in the recently-concluded elections. So, they would have a tough job explaining if they really had no idea, as it turns out that they did have an idea and that a BJP legislator had access to all these compromising videos, or incriminating videos, for some time before the elections.»
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