Udupi: BJP - MLA, Raghupathi Bhat caught in sex scandal: Opts out of election arena

Mangalore Today.Com

Udupi, March 28, 2013: Sitting MLA of Udupi Raghupathi Bhat has opted out of the poll arena, in the wake of the circulation of a sex CD which showed him in a sex act with an unidentified woman.

It has been reliably learnt that Bhat who felt greatly humiliated over the circulation of the sex CD,  has informed some TV channels which contacted him to know his response, that he would not be contesting elections this time.

 

Bhat is learnt to have said that the CD was circulated just with an intention to tarnish his  image and  that he was not the person in the CD.  It has been learnt that the CD which reached several TV channels and media houses has explicit sex scenes which  seem to be an act of mutual consent.

“ I am hurt, humiliated, surprised as well as shocked,” Bhat has reacted to the CD  which, he says he saw just last night. He said this was nothing but   character assassination and strongly suspects the hands of his political adversaries.He has also demanded a high level probe into the case and promised he will return to politics only after he comes out clear once the investigation is over.

There have been reports earlier that  some RSS leaders were strongly against Bhat’s candidature as they suspected that Bhat’s candidature would certainly give a tool in the hands of the opposition parties to rake up the  allegation of Bhat’s involvement in  his wife, Padmapriya’s suspicious death case.

 

State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Pralhad Joshi told reporters here that the party would take action only after it is proved that the man in the CD is Bhat.


Meanwhile, the circulation of the CD at a time when assembly elections are just round the corner,  has also given room for much suspicion. There are reports that the BJP was planning to field either the son of late Dr VS Acharya or his wife  from Udupi.