Prajwal Revanna Case: Revanna is ex-Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s grandson.
New Delhi:
Karnataka lawmaker Prajwal Revanna – who fled to Germany final month, shortly after horrific intercourse crimes allegations by ladies who mentioned he compelled them into sexual acts – launched an announcement Monday, claiming feedback and “political drama” by opposition leaders, together with Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, “drove me to despair and I used to be pushed into isolation”.
“I apologise to my mother and father… I used to be in despair. I’ll come (again to India) and seem earlier than the SIT (a particular investigative crew arrange by the state authorities) on Could 31 (Friday),” Revanna mentioned.
“I’ll cooperate to one of the best of my talents and supply all solutions. I’ve full religion within the authorized system (and) I’ll come out of those false instances in opposition to me. I’ve the blessings of God and my household…”
On Could 1, 4 days after he fled the nation, Revanna posted a message on X. He mentioned, “I’m not in Bengaluru… I’ve communicated (to the police) by my lawyer. The reality will prevail quickly.”
Revanna is a Janata Dal (Secular) chief and the grandson of celebration patriarch and ex-Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, and nephew of senior chief and ex-Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy.
He’s additionally the sitting MP from Karnataka’s Hassan Lok Sabha seat, which he has been nominated to defend within the 2024 basic election. The JDS is allied with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP.
Revanna’s message – his first public touch upon prices in opposition to him – comes after a warning from Deve Gowda, who instructed his grandson to return residence and give up “or face your loved ones’s anger”.
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Deve Gowda mentioned he had warned Revanna to “not take a look at my persistence” and that it took him time to get well from the “shock and ache”. The previous Prime Minister – focused by the ruling Congress, former allies turned political rivals, over claims it was he despatched Revanna overseas – pressured he had known as for “the harshest punishment underneath the legislation” for his grandson “if (he’s) discovered responsible…”
I’ve issued a warning to @iPrajwalRevanna to return instantly from wherever he’s and topic himself to the authorized course of. He mustn’t take a look at my persistence any additional. pic.twitter.com/kCMuNJOvAo
— H D Deve Gowda (@H_D_Devegowda) Could 23, 2024
Revanna’s uncle, HD Kumaraswamy, has additionally made an attraction.
READ | “If You Have Respect…”: HD Kumaraswamy’s Enchantment To Revanna
The ex-Chief Minister final week additionally appealed to his nephew. “I’ve overtly appealed to him… instructed him, ‘in case you have respect for the celebration and Deve Gowda, come again…’ Cooperate with the probe. In case you have not performed something show it. In case you have, then face the punishment,” Revanna was instructed.
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Revanna’s return residence could also be sophisticated by the very fact the Ministry of Exterior Affairs is ready to cancel his diplomatic passport. A request to this impact has been made by the state authorities.
The centre is within the means of cancelling the journey doc, Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has mentioned. Mr Jaishankar additionally took the possibility for a jibe in opposition to Karnataka’s ruling Congress, declaring the request to cancel the passport was made solely on Could 21, a number of days after the scandal broke.
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The Congress and the BJP have attacked one another over the Revanna case.
The previous has pointed to the alliance between the BJP and the JDS to assert Prajwal Revanna is being shielded, whereas the latter has criticised the state authorities for delayed reactions.
Prajwal Revanna – who faces an arrest warrant from a MP/MLA court docket – has denied all prices.
