Siddaramaiah urges Modi to take action to cancel Prajwal Revanna’s diplomatic passport
The Karnataka CM said he was ‘disheartened’ that an earlier letter to PM Modi, urging action against the MP accused of sexual assault, had not been acted on.
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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take “prompt and necessary” action to cancel the diplomatic passport of Lok Sabha MP Prajwal Revanna in view of the investigation of sexual abuse allegations against him.
An unidentified official confirmed to The Hindu on Thursday that the Ministry of External Affairs had received the same request from the Karnataka government previously and that the matter is under process.
On April 28, Revanna and his father, former Karnataka minister HD Revanna, were booked by the Karnataka Police for sexual harassment and criminal intimidation. The first information report was based on a complaint by a woman who had worked in the Revanna household for three-and-a-half years.
Prajwal Revanna, who represents Karnataka’s Hassan Lok Sabha constituency, is believed to be in Germany, where he flew on the night of April 27 using his diplomatic passport. He was suspended from the Janata Dal (Secular) on April 30.
“Such abuse of privileges and deliberate acts of non-cooperation deserve serious action by the Union government”, the Siddaramaiah said in a letter to Modi on Thursday, adding that it was “disheartening” that his previous communication to the prime minister had not been acted on.
Earlier in May, the chief minister had written to Modi urging him to move the Ministry of Home Affairs and the...
