Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, was suspended by the JD(S) on Tuesday due to claims of sexual assault. Former Chief Minister and head of the JD(S), HD Kumaraswamy, stated that the decision was made because the party opposed injustice against women.

Kumaraswamy claimed that the vulgar videos were leaked just five days before the Hassan constituency polls, implying a plot against the JD(S). The NDA’s candidate in Hassan, which had its second round of elections on April 26, was Prajwal Revanna.

Till today, the victims have not filed complaints with the authorities. Regarding this, the Chief Minister has received a letter from the State Women’s Commission. The Chief Minister then constituted a SIT, according to Prajwal Revanna’s uncle Kumaraswamy.

The former Chief Minister said, his (Prajwal Revanna) suspension is until the investigation is completed.

The JD(S) MP allegedly fled the country for Germany as the obscene video clips purportedly featuring Prajwal began to circulate in Hassan.

Revanna was seen in the video recordings purportedly abusing several women sexually.

Amidst the incident, the MP and his father, JD(S) MLA and former minister HD Revanna, were accused of sexual harassment by a woman who worked in Prajwal’s household. In response to the woman’s complaint, both of them has been named in a case.

The eldest son of JD(S) patriarch Deve Gowda, HD Revanna, claimed there was politics underlying the matter and said he was amenable to an inquiry into the claims of sexual assault. Revanna said that if the accusations were validated, he and his son were prepared to answer to the authorities.

The Congress has seized the opportunity to attack the BJP and JD(S), an ally. According to a Congress spokesperson Suprya Shrinate, the BJP leader Devaraj Gowda, wrote to the party leadership last year regarding pen drives and Revanna’s sexual misconduct.

Congress workers protested the issue on Tuesday in Bengaluru and other cities of Karnataka.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka police have been asked to provide a report on the matter to the National Commission for Women (NCW) within three days.

Home Minister Amit Shah today launched a frontal assault on the Congress, after a deepfake video of him claiming that he will eliminate reservations went viral. A Congress worker, Reetam Singh, from Guwahati, Assam, was taken into custody yesterday on suspicion of creating and disseminating the Home Minister’s deepfake video.

The deepfake video allegedly showed Shah discussing the scrapping of all reservations, but in reality, he was discussing the removal of Telangana’s Muslim quota due to religious reasons. In Karnataka, the BJP had eliminated this kind of quota before losing the state to the Congress.

Shah played both of the videos during a press conference today to show what he truly said and what the manipulated content said he said.

After playing the video Shah said, it is unfair and unacceptable to impose quotas based on religious beliefs. In Karnataka, they have already gotten rid of it. He had said in the original video.

The Home Minister claimed that the fake video twisted it to say the BJP will scrap all reservations.

As a matter of fact, Shah had said that the BJP would not permit anyone to remove reservations for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, referring to this as Modi’s guarantee.

Rahul Gandhi claims that the BJP will remove reservations if it wins 400 seats. While we enjoyed a complete majority for two terms, as I mentioned earlier, Narendra Modi is a proponent of reservations. Shah said, he want to emphasize that it is a Modi promise that the BJP will not eliminate reservations for SCs, STs, and OBCs, nor will it permit anyone to do so.

The BJP’s demand for abki baar 400 paar has been accused by opposition parties of being a ploy to gain 400 seats in the Lok Sabha in order to gain enough members in parliament to remove ST, SC, and OBC quotas.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has received a notice from Delhi Police about the doctored video of Union Home Minister Amit Shah related to reservations. Five people have been identified by the police in relation to this case. They will also receive the notice.

Reddy had been asked to join the investigation on May 1 by the Delhi Police. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs submitted a complaint, and the Delhi Police responded by filing a FIR earlier yesterday.

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has been called to appear before Delhi Police’s IFSO unit (Cyber Unit) on May 1, to participate in the probe, according to source. The CM has been summoned to come with the phone that was purportedly used to upload the fake video to X (formerly Twitter), the source added.

According to a complaint the Ministry of Home Affairs filed with the Delhi Police, several doctored movies have been discovered to be being shared by Facebook and X (Twitter) users. According to the report, the video appears to have been altered to disseminate false information and create discord among communities, which could have an impact on public order.

The BJP has claimed that the video was edited to misrepresent Shah’s initial remarks made at a political rally.

Social media users who are critical of the BJP have started posting the fake video along with the untrue assertion that the saffron party intends to abolish reservations. Constitutional issues and reservation issues have emerged as crucial election campaign issues between the Congress and the BJP. The BJP has accused the Congress of taking away the SC, ST, and OBC reservations and giving them to the Muslims, while the Congress has accused the BJP of wanting to amend the constitution and abolish reservation.