Prajwal Revanna case: BJP says ‘no authority over ally’, asks what did state Congress govt do

Distancing itself from the sexual abuse allegations against Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna, the BJP on Tuesday said it does not have any control over its alliance partner in Karnataka. The BJP also targeted the Congress saying it could have taken action against Prajwal as the state government led by it had “all the information”.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the accusations against Prajwal, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) candidate in Hassan and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda’s grandson, involve alleged incidents that “cannot be tolerated”. The BJP general secretary in charge of Karnataka, Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, said his party would “extend all the support to the state government for a neutral probe”.

However, both Shah and Agrawal blamed the Congress for delaying a probe and “letting him (Prajwal) leave the country”. The JD(S) on Tuesday suspended Prajwal from the party with immediate effect.

“The Congress which wants to accuse us, I want to ask a small thing: whose government is there? It is a Congress government. The videos would have been in your knowledge because it was released at such a time. And till now, why has the Congress party not taken any action? The proceedings do not have to be done by us. Law and order is a state issue.”

Agrawal, meanwhile, told The Indian Express, “The BJP has nothing to do with this episode. We have an alliance with the JD(S) for the election. The BJP cannot intervene in the internal affairs of the JD(S) to select its candidate. We neither hold ourselves responsible for what happened nor will we going to protect the accused. Law will take its course.”

In the past few months, the BJP has targeted the Congress over the comments of its ally