Bengaluru, May 1 -- The former driver of Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna said on Tuesday that he gave a pen drive filled with videos showing purported sexual acts by the Janata Dal (Secular) leader with multiple women, which have sparked allegations of mass sexual abuse, to a local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and not the Congress.

His comments - via a video statement uploaded on social media - came on a day Prawjal, the grandson of JD(S) chief and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, was suspended from the party amid mounting criticism of the leader who is also the Lok Sabha candidate from Hassan, which voted on April 26.

Karthik, who goes by a single name, said he approached Devaraje Gowda, who was fighting against the JD(S) first fami...