Congressional leader and party spokesperson in Karnataka Kavitha Reddy, who allegedly attacked actor Samyuktha Hegde on September 4 in a lake garden in Bengaluru, offered an unconditional apology on Sunday. “I have always opposed moral vigilance. I realize that my actions were construed as such. An argument ended in me reacting aggressively as well, it was a mistake,” Reddy said in a tweet.
‘I have always opposed the moral police’
“As a responsible citizen and progressive woman, I sincerely acknowledge and apologize to Samyuktha Hegde and her friends.” she added.
I have always opposed moral vigilance. I realize that my actions were interpreted as such. An argument ended in me reacting aggressively too, it was a mistake. As a responsible citizen and progressive woman, I acknowledge that I do not sincerely apologize to @SamyukthaHegde n your friends! pic.twitter.com/pM9UJkWESC
– Kavitha Reddy (KR) Jai Bhim! (@ KavithaReddy16) September 6, 2020
‘Sorry, Ms. Kavitha Reddy’
In response to Kavitha Reddy’s apology, Samyuktha Hegde said she accepts the apology and hopes that “we can all move forward with the incident and make women feel safe everywhere.”
However, the actor added: “For the public record only, Ms. Kavitha Reddy has not deleted any of her posts about the events as cited in her apology.” “I agree that no woman should go through what happened to them during the incident. In retrospect, I regret my social media posts about the incident and have deleted them along with my previous post about my version of the incident,” he had stated Reddy. in her apology.
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Hegde had alleged on Saturday that Reddy tried to attack and abuse her and her friends for hula-hooping in a sportswear park on the city’s Lake Agara. She also accused a group of people instigated by the woman of threatening to label her as a drug user, amid the ongoing investigation into alleged drug ties with people from the Kannada film industry.
Following the incident, Samyuktha Hegde filed a complaint against Kavitha Reddy. An FIR was registered against her on Saturday at the HSR Layout police station. Kavitha Reddy received intense reviews online, and celebrities like Benafsha Soonawalla and Kaniha also joined in. They lent their support to Samyuktha, calling her ‘shameful’, ‘outrageous’ and more.
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(with PTI inputs)
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