Where is your ‘Nari Shakti’, ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’? Congress asks Modi, Shah over Revanna’s sexual misdeeds

New Delhi: Congress hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for turning a blind eye towards the brutal and barbaric sexual misdeeds and exploitation of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna.

Revanna is the BJP-JD(S) candidate from the Hassan parliamentary constituency. He is the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here today, Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate pointed out that the BJP leaders had duly informed the party high command in writing well in advance that Revanna was involved in a brutal and barbaric sexual scandal where he had exploited thousands of women who included domestic help, party workers and legislators.

He had not even spared a 63-year-old domestic help who is seen in a video crying and pleading with him not to do what he was doing with her, Shrinate disclosed.

The Congress spokesperson also showed the photographs of Revanna, sharing the stage with Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah. She pointed out this was even though a senior BJP leader had informed the party and addressed a press conference months before the elections.

She said the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister cannot escape the responsibility for turning a blind eye and letting him fight as the BJP-JD(S) candidate from the Hassan parliamentary constituency. She said Modi even sought votes for him on April 14 in Mysuru.

Shrinate questioned the silence of the union minister for Child and Women Development Smriti Irani and the Chairperson of the National Commission for Women Rekha Sharma on the matter.

She observed that this was typical of the BJP’s leadership to protect the culprits of sexual harassment and exploitation. She pointed out, that Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh continues to get the protection of the Prime Minister and he has still not been dropped as a party candidate.

The Congress spokesperson blasted the hypocrisy of BJP’s slogans of ‘Nari Shakti’ and ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ when its leaders have been protecting and patronizing those who have brutally exploited women.

She disclosed that the moment it came to notice of the Karnataka government a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted to probe the matter. She said that although Revanna had fled the country the moment SIT was constituted, the SIT was trying its best to get him extradited to face the law.