Is Modi’s ‘political family’ tag a ‘protection’ for criminals: Rahul
As always, Modi has maintained silence on crimes against women in K’taka: Cong leader
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the sexual abuse allegations against JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, asking whether being part of “Modi’s political family” a “guarantee of protection for criminals”.
Police on Sunday booked Prajwal Revanna and his father H D Revanna 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 PM H D Deve Gowda and nephew of former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy.
Faced with the unrelenting attack from the Congress and other parties, the JD (S), an ally of the BJP, suspended Prajwal.
In a post in Hindi, Gandhi said, “As always, Narendra Modi has maintained shameful silence on the gruesome crimes committed against women in Karnataka.”
“The Prime Minister will have to answer: Despite knowing everything, why did he campaign for the devil who exploited hundreds of daughters, just for votes? After all, how did such a big criminal escape from the country with such ease?” the former Congress chief said.
From Kaiserganj to Karnataka and from Unnao to Uttarakhand, the prime minister’s “silent support” to the criminals of daughters is emboldening the criminals across the country, Gandhi said.
“Is being part of Modi’s ‘political family’ a ‘guarantee of protection’ for criminals?” he said.
Meanwhile, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on Wednesday alleged that former PM and JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda planned the escape of his grandson and Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna abroad.
He also slammed Home Minister Amit Shah and asked why his party gave ticket to its alliance partner candidate if BJP was pro “Matru Shakti” (women power).
On Amit Shah’s statement that his party “respected Matru aur Nari Shakti”, Siddaramaiah sought to know why it gave Prajwal a ticket when it had information about his videos beforehand.
“Why did BJP give ticket to him if it was ‘Pro-Matru-Shakti’? When they were aware of the video why the ticket was given to him? Why did they form an alliance when they knew that there were such videos? What does it mean? What does it indicate? Please explain to me,” the Chief Minister said.
He also ruled out his deputy D K Shivakumar’s hand in leaking the videos as has been alleged by JD(S) second-in-command H D Kumaraswamy.
“Kumaraswamy says that these videos were leaked. Karthik is Prajwal’s driver. He has said he gave it (pen drive comprising videos and photos) to BJP leader G Devaraje Gowda. Did he say that he gave it to D K Shivakumar? How can he (Kumaraswamy) say that D K Shivakumar released it,” Siddaramaiah said.