Belthangady: BJP candidate from 2013 assembly election and youth leader to join Congress on Monday
Belthangady: BJP youth leader and party’s Taluk committee president Ranjan G Gowda will join the Congress party on Monday, April 1.
Ranjan met Congress leader Siddaramaiah along with District In-Charge Minister U. T Khader on Friday and discussed his plans to join the party.
Ranjan Gowda, son of former minister K Gangadhar Gowda, was the BJP candidate from Belthangady assembly constituency in the 2013 Assembly elections and had lost the election. Following the defeat the saffron party had refused to give ticket to him in 2018 election.
Ranjan Gowda has earlier served as district president of BJP Yuva Morcha.
Ranjan has followed the footsteps of his father Gangadhar Gowda, who returned back to Congress ahead of previous assembly elections after joining BJP. Gandadhar was a minister in Gundurao government when he was in Congress.
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Sex videos: BJP leader Devaraje Gowda arrested in Chitradurga
Chitradurga (PTI): BJP leader and advocate G Devaraje Gowda was arrested in connection with an explicit video allegedly belonging to Hassan JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna.
According to police, Devaraje Gowda was arrested at Gulihal tollgate by the Hiriyur police in this district on Friday night for leaking the video in a pen drive.
He was arrested on a tip-off received by the Hassan police, which wanted his presence for the case.
Several explicit videos involving Prajwal started making the rounds ahead of the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, which took place on April 26.
The MP, a grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, is absconding and a 'blue corner' notice has been issued against him by Interpol.
Three FIRs, including charges of rape, molestation, intimidation, blackmailing and threatening, have been registered against Prajwal.
Devaraje Gowda is accused of leaking these videos, which he has categorically rejected.
He contested in the 2023 Assembly elections against JD(S) MLA from Holenarasipura H D Revanna.
Revanna, father of Prajwal, is at present in jail on charges of kidnapping a woman, a mother of three.
