Karnataka Minister for Irrigation Ramesh Jarkiholi's resignation after allegations of him seeking sexual favours from a woman in return for a government job emerged, is a national shame.
It has caused a huge embarrassment to the Karnataka government and the ruling BJP. He is the same minister who had led the team of 17 MLAs from the Opposition parties to join BJP.
It is really unfortunate that politicians like Jarkiholi exploit the weakness of needy people. This is not the first time that a Karnataka politician’s name has featured in a sex scandal.
Politics and sex has always become an explosive cocktail and there have been umpteen number of cases of politicians being involved in sex scandals across the world.
Women, as usual, are easy prey for these politicians and history has witnessed a plethora of cases where these 'servants of people' have unabashedly shown disrespect to the mothers, daughters and sisters of their electorate.
