'PM Modi campaigned for mass rapist': Rahul Gandhi in letter to Karnataka CM over Prajwal Revanna ‘sexual abuse’ case

"Prajwal Revanna sexually assaulted and filmed hundreds of women implicit respective years. Many who looked up to him arsenic a member and lad were brutalized successful the astir convulsive mode and robbed of their dignity. The rape of our mothers and sisters warrants the strictest imaginable punishment," Rahul Gandhi said successful the letter. 

Rahul Gandhi expressed his daze implicit the quality that Union Home Minister Amit Shah was alert of Prajwal Revanna's antecedents since December 2023, but nary enactment was taken. 

"I americium profoundly shocked to larn that arsenic acold backmost arsenic December 2023, our Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah, was informed by Shri G. Devaraje Gowda astir Prajwal Revanna's antecedents, particularly his past of intersexual unit and the beingness of videos filmed by the perpetrator. What is adjacent much shocking is that contempt these gruesome allegations being brought to the announcement of the elder astir BJP leadership, the Prime Minister campaigned and canvassed for a wide rapist," the missive read. 

While continuing his onslaught connected the BJP and PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi said helium had ne'er travel crossed a elder nationalist typical who has perpetually chosen soundlessness successful the look of untold unit against women. 

"From the wrestlers successful Haryana to our sisters successful Manipur, Indian women are bearing the brunt of the Prime Minister's maneuver enactment for specified criminals," the missive said. 

"In this backdrop, the Congress enactment has a motivation work to combat for justness for our mothers and sisters. I recognize that the Karnataka Government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to analyse the sedate allegations, and a petition has been made to the Prime Minister to cancel Prajwal Revanna's diplomatic passport and get him extradited to India astatine the earliest," helium added.

Rahul Gandhi requested that the Karnataka CM widen each imaginable enactment to the victims and guarantee that each parties liable for these heinous crimes are brought to book. 

Prajwal Revanna's' intersexual abuse' case

Ahead of the 3rd signifier of the Lok Sabha predetermination 2024, a monolithic governmental contention deed Karnataka, which has cornered the BJP and its state JD(S). Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of erstwhile premier curate Deve Gowda, recovered himself embroiled successful the lawsuit aft his obscene videos went viral connected the internet, wherever the JD(S) person tin beryllium seen harassing aggregate women. 

Opposition parties were speedy to people PM Modi and the BJP implicit the contented arsenic the Karnataka authorities formed a Special Investigation Team to analyse the matter. Prajwal Revanna near the state for Germany arsenic the sound astir the lawsuit grew, prompting the authorities to contented a lookout circular against the JD(S) leader. 

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Published: 04 May 2024, 02:46 PM IST