Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister He on Saturday claimed that the Congress government in Karnataka did not take action against JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna, accused of sexually abusing women, for about a year despite being aware of the matter.
The Congress feared losing votes from the Vokkaliga and hence remained silent till the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections was over, he said at a meeting with select journalists here.
“Union Home Minister (Amit Shah) has made it very clear that we will not tolerate issues that go against women and on that we are united. Although the alliance partner (BJP) has this problem, we have left it “Of course it was not acceptable and it should be investigated,” Sitharaman said, when asked if the scandal will have an impact on her party’s performance in Karnataka in the ongoing elections.
It was claimed that a driver handed over a pen drive (supposedly containing evidence of Revanna’s acts) to the Congress party and the state Home Minister, but they sat on this evidence for about a year, and “now the BJP is forced to reply”. because the JD(S) is allied with us,” he said.
Ministers in the Congress government knew what was in the pen drive but did not believe that women’s safety should be their priority, Sitharaman alleged.
“They thought that the Vokkaliga votes might slip out of their hands and decided to remain silent till the time the first phase of the Lok Sabha was over. Now they are making it a big issue and pushing it, which is typical of the Congress and shows their hypocrisy.” “, the BJP leader further said, asking why the investigation was delayed by a year.
The Karnataka government was writing to the chief minister about the case, asking him to issue surveillance notices against Prajwal Revanna and bring him back from abroad, but the Union Home Minister had clearly said that the Karnataka government can take all necessary measures. wants to drink, he said.
He asked about BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh’s son Karan Singh got a party ticket for the Kaiserganj constituency in Uttar Pradesh. Sitharaman said the allegations against the MP were yet to be proven.
Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is accused of sexually harassing female wrestlers.
“There is nothing proven against Brij Bhushan…even if he is convicted, I would say they want to put the blame on the son. Even the sons of those convicted have been entertained by many parties,” the Union minister said.
The BJP was still confident after two phases of the Lok Sabha elections in which it won 370 seats on its own and 400 seats along with its NDA allies, he said.
When asked if the BJP was on the defensive and responding to the opposition’s narrative rather than setting its own, Sitharaman said that was not the case.
“Our response to the Congress manifesto is not defensive or negative, rather it is more offensive and substantive,” he said, adding that the manifesto was more of a Muslim League document.
Later, in an interaction with students at an event at Deccan College in the city, Sitharaman spoke about the Rohith Vemula case in which the Telangana police filed a closure report before a local court stating that the University of Hyderabad was not a Dalit, and he committed suicide in 2016 because he feared his “royal caste” would be discovered.
The matter was brought to the streets without allowing the university to handle it sensitively, the Union minister claimed.
“It was an unfortunate incident. He was dragged to the streets and a narrative was built that the government was suppressing (the events) and was against the students and the SCs. Today, the same people who dragged Vemula’s unfortunate family to the streets, they should stand up to us before the entire country and apologize for having politicized it,” he said.
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