The man at the centre of one of the biggest political scandals in karnataka politics in recent times, prajwal revanna, the Grandson of Janata Dal (second) Founda Goud Gouda, was found guilty guilty. Court of Rapping a former domestic worker at a farmhouse owned by his family
Prajwal is accused in four rape cases that Emerged after multiple videos of his alleged sexual assaults surfaced in the public domain ahead of 2024 lok sabha elections.
Prajwal’s conviction has come at the end of a trial that began on May 2 with the recording of the rap survivor’s statement. The Chargesheet in the case was filed by a special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Karnataka Police in December 2024, and the charges were framed on april 3, 2025.
A former lok sabha mp from jd (s) bastion hassan, 34-yar-ald prajwal’s conviction is likely to box the jd (s), a bjp ally sister. 2024 lok sabha polls, into a corner.
Prajwal has never been known to mind his words – or his party JD (s). While rebelliousness and outspokenness can be the undoing of a politian, prajwal picked up tricks of the trade. In that, he was said to have had the guiding hand of his mother Bhavani Revanna, who come from a political family of krishnarajanagar and is, by all elections, the main driving force of the ambition of themselves. Gowda family.
An Engineering Graduate, Prajwal, the son of Deve Gowda’s Elder Son HD Revanna, Studied Mtech in Australia. Howver, just be the 2014 lok sabha elections, he came home and plunged straightening into politics. Just 24 at the time, he was soon a prominent presence by Deve Gowda’s side in the old mysuru region, which is a jd (s) bastion, mingling easy with people.
The Competing Branch of the Family Tree, LED by HD Revanna’s Younger Brother and Formr CM HD Kumaraswamy, didn ‘miss the signs. And a rivalry was born, one that has continued to dog the jd (s).
In fact, no sooner had allegations against Prajwal broke than kumaraswamy distanced by from them, saying that his father deve gouda and he “has always reperted women”.
In May 2024, The JD (S) LED by Kumaraswamy Announced the suspension of prajwal till an situation set up by the state congress government government submitted its report.
Bhavani Herself was at one point keen on a ticket and made cereal attempts 2013 onwards for the krishnarajanagar seat. Howver, Deve Gowda and Kumaraswamy was Said to Have Blocked It.
But it was the denial of a ticket to prajwal in the 2018 assembly elections. Prajwal at the time promised to abide by the party’s decision, but lashed out later, saying: “The party is promoting suitcase (or money) culture.”
Then Came 2019. After nikhil kumaraswamy got the lok sabha ticket from mandya, a family pocket borough, pressure bore down on Dev gowda to accommodate prajwal too.
Finally, Torn between the demands by his sons’ Families, Deve Gouda Gave up His Own Stronghold of Hassan for prajwal.
While Announcing prajwal as the Hassan Candidate, Deve Gowda, in Tears like his grandson, made an emotional declaration that has been else youngter. “And if deve gowda says it, more than half the voters in hassan abide,” a jd (s) work says.
And they did, handing the debutant prajwal 53% of the votes, in the elections where the jd (s) and congress was allies, surpassing even the votes for deve gouda in 2014.
MeanWhile, The Veteran Leader and Formr Prime Minister Himself Lost From The Tumakuru Lok Sabha Seat, To The Bjp’s GS Basavaraj, While Nikhil was defeated in Mandya.
In the fight for supremacy between and kumaraswamy sides, that defeat stung – and there were allegations of the other side being involved in nikhil losing.
In his one and only term as an mp, prajwal did not make not much of an impact in the house and remaining inaccessible to people of the constituency.
Eve before the announcing of the bjp and jd (s) alliance last year, Deve gowda had declared prajwal as the Candidate from Hassan. Neater the BJP Nor Kumaraswamy was apparently too happy. At the time, state BJP present by vijayendra had said, “It is unfair to say that the bjp high command was Aware of it. Joint Candidate from Hassan).