PM Modi allowed Prajwal Revanna to flee, then cancelled all Karnataka meets as he was afraid: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'allowed' sex scandal accused, NDA Hassan candidate Prajwal Revanna, to flee the country and thereafter cancelled all meetings in Karnataka as he was 'afraid'.

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"In the history of the country, not a single prime minister had sought support from voters for a mass rapist... It is not sex scandal, but a mass rape case. Prajwal had raped 400 women and it is shameful that Modi campaigned for him in Hassan," Gandhi claimed at a rally in Raichur. Modi must apologise to the women of the country for campaigning for Prajwal Revanna, he said.


In a rally in Shivamogga earlier in the day, Gandhi slammed BJP president JP Nadda for 'branding those who demanded equality as Maoists'. "If people of Backward Classes are politically empowered today, it is because of the Indian Constitution. BJP does not want reservation for SCs, STs; it wants to abolish it... Congress has always safeguarded the Constitution," he claimed. He praised Congress' initiative for conducting a caste census.