A BJP leader in Karnataka has claimed that he wrote to the state's party president in December 2023 saying he received a pen drive with nearly 3,000 videos of women, including government officials, performing sexual acts and alleged that Janata Dal (Secular) MP Prajwal Revanna used the footage to blackmail the women to continue engaging in such activities.
In his letter to the BJP's state president BY Vijayendra dated December 8, 2023, Devaraje Gowda, who was the party's Holenarsipura candidate in the 2023 Assembly elections, said “there are grave allegations against several leaders of the HD Deve Gowda family, including Prajwal Revanna, the NDA candidate of the JD(S), the party that we are in alliance with”.
Gowda said that the pen drive contained a total of 2,976 videos and some of the women featured in the footage were government officials.
The videos "were then being used to blackmail them into continuing to engage in sexual activities".
On Sunday, JD(S) MLA Sharanagouda Kandkur wrote to party chief HD Deve Gowda appealing for the expulsion of Prajwal Revanna as the case had caused embarrassment to the party.
