Two Gujarat BJP MLA caught watching porn in assembly

 After Karnataka, a porn scandal has erupted in Gujarat. Two BJP MLAs in Gujarat were allegedly caught watching porn clips on their tablets inside the assembly while proceedings were on.

According to TV reports, the two MLAs are Shankar Choudhury and Jetha Dharwad. While Chaudhary is an MLA from Radhanpur, Bharwad is from Shehra. According to reports, a local journalist recorded the two watching porn.

The Congress has alleged that two BJP MLAs Shankar Chaudhary and Jetha Bharwad were watching the porn clips when the BJP state president walked into the assembly. On seeing him enter, they immediately changed the clips to a video of Swami Vivekananda.

The BJP MLAs have denied allegations and said Congress is trying to malign them.

The Gujarat porngate comes just a month after a similar scene was witnessed in the Karnataka assembly. Three BJP ministers - CC Patil, Laxman Savadi and Krishna Palemar were caught on camera watching a sleazy video clip in mobile phone during an assembly session.

Karnataka: Porngate-hit MLAs to explain their conduct today

Three Karnataka ministers, who quit over the porn scandal, are expected to furnish on Monday their replies to the showcause notice served to them by Assembly Speaker KG Bopaiah seeking explanation on their conduct.

The Speaker had on February 8 slapped the showcause notice on Laxman Savadi, C C Patil and Krishna Palemar, following their resignation a day after being caught on TV cameras watching a sleazy video on a mobile phone in the Assembly.

Sources in BJP said the party was providing legal advice to the tainted former ministers in preparing their reply to the showcause notice.

After receiving the replies, Bopaiah would decide on setting up the House Inquiry committee that he had announced to probe the issue.

The proposed six-member committee, which is to comprise two members each from BJP, opposition Congress and JD(S), had been given time till March 12 to submit its report.

Congress and JD(S) have refused to nominate members to the panel demanding the Speaker to take suo moto decision and disqualify the trio from their Assembly membership.

TV cameras captured Karnataka ministers watching porn

Allowing TV channels to cover the legislature proceedings from the visitors' gallery cost the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka dear, as their video cameras caught its two ministers watching porn in the assembly.

The state legislature secretariat, which for security reasons banned video and photo journalists from covering the proceedings from the margins of the house, however, allowed them to record the current 10-day session from the visitors' gallery on the first floor of the Vidhan Soudha.

Video journalists from a couple of Kannada news channels, covering the proceedings from a vantage point in the gallery, noticed ministers Laxman Savadi and CC Patil glued to a mobile handset and zoomed their cameras to focus on what they were viewing.

A close look and replay of the video footage showed the duo sitting together and watching pornographic material on a mobile handset which belonged to fellow minister J Krishna Palemar. All three have now resigned as ministers.

Use of cell phones is prohibited in the state legislature when the assembly and the council are in session. Mobile jammers inside the monolithic building, however, have not been functioning due to a snag that remained unattended for weeks by the secretariat staff.

According to reports in the local media, the porn clipping is a mobile phone movie of about four minutes duration.

The video clip has been in circulation in Hubli-Dharwad, about 480 km from Bangalore, over the last couple of months.

Savadi, a BJP lawmaker from Athni constituency in Belgaum district, about 500 km from here, was minister for cooperation and agriculture marketing and Patil, another ruling party lawmaker from Nargund segment in Gadag district, was minister for women and child development.