From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network
Bengaluru, May 1: Congress leader D K Suresh claimed that JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy and BJP leaders had information about Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna’s sex abuse pen drives before everybody else.
Speaking to media persons near his residence in Bengaluru, he ridiculed Kumaraswamy for needlessly blaming Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar to
“save” themselves.
“Kumaraswamy can’t live without taking D K Shivakumar’s name every day. If
we were releasing the pen drive, we would have done it before the first phase of elections in Karnataka. Kumaraswamy and BJP leaders were the first to know about this. Kumaraswamy has been giving different statements each day. What is important is not Kumaraswamy’s statements but justice to victims of this case,” he said.
Replying to a query on why Devaraje Gowda was taking D K Shivakumar’s name, he said, “He is trying to protect his political career. The incident has happened in Hassan and Hassan leaders are involved in the release. Kumaraswamy and BJP leaders are behind this. Their family members have been giving different statements each day and it is incorrect to blame it on someone else.”
When asked about Devaraje Gowda’s statement that the pen drive had reached Shivakumar before it reached him, Suresh said, “I don’t have information on that. There were murmurs in Hassan. Their family had even brought a stay in court too. And now the pen drive has come out in the open.”
On Suraj Revanna’s meeting Shivakumar, he said, “Don’t read too much into it. Suraj Revanna may have met D K Shivakumar for any official work.”
When asked about release of a video of Ramanagara MLA, he said, “Let them
release it. If anyone files a complaint, authorities will take necessary action.”
Replying to a query on whether his aides were behind the release of the pen drive, he said, “There are hundreds of things like these. It was Bombay Blue Boys earlier and then C P Yogeshwar did a run of Maths. What was the reason for change of B S Yediyurappa from the chief ministership? Yogeshwar himself has answered that question.”