H. D. Revanna

Hardanahalli Devegowda Revanna (born 17 December 1957) is an Indian politician from the state of Karnataka, and a member of the Legislative Assembly in the state of Karnataka, representing the Holenarasipur constituency in Hassan district. His political party is Janata Dal (Secular). H. D. Revanna was booked in a kidnapping case in April 2024 after a 20-year-old man filed a police complaint alleging that Revanna’s associate abducted his mother, who was among the many women featured in the alleged sexual abuse tapes of Revanna’s son Prajwal Revanna.

Personal life and family
He is one of the sons of former Prime Minister of India H. D. Deve Gowda and Chanamma, and is the elder brother of H. D. Kumaraswamy. He is married to Bhavani Revanna and he has two sons Suraj and Prajwal. His son, Prajwal Revanna, was elected to Lok Sabha from Hassan constituency in 2019. He was absconding after his alleged sex tapes were leaked, having fled to Germany. He arrived in Bangalore back on May 31th. Currently he is in the custody of Special Investigation Team (India). Revanna has stated that his son should be hanged if he is guilty of committing crimes.

His son, Suraj was also arrested by Police in alleged sexual harassment case on 23rd June 2024

Political career
He won the Holenarasipur Karnataka Legislative Assembly seat in 1994. He again contested unsuccessfully in 1999, he was elected again in the 2004 General Elections for the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the same constituency. This time he became Minister for PWD (Public Works Department) and Energy Department in Dharam Singh and H. D. Kumaraswamy Government. H. D. Revanna was also the president of Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) for 9 years. In 2018 Karnataka assembly elections, H. D. Revanna took 92,713 votes from Holenarasipur.