Ex-BJP MLA attempts suicide after woman exposes affair to media

Karnataka’s former BJP minister SA Ramdas late Tuesday attempted to commit suicide by trying to himself in a Mysore guesthouse. “Ramdas is out of danger though under observation in a private hospital,” a party source told IANS early Wednesday. [caption id=“attachment_1385345” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  SA Ramdass: Ibnlive[/caption] According to unconfirmed reports, Ramdas, a 54-year-old bachelor, was upset after he learnt that a woman, who claimed that he married her recently, threatened to expose his relationship with her via audio and video evidence. “We learnt from the guesthouse staff that Ramdas was rushed to Apollo hospital after he was founding hanging in the room where he checked in earlier in the day,” the source said on the condition of anonymity. The woman, identified as Premkumari, told local news channels that though she had known Ramdas for the last five years, they had become close after he had promised to marry her and look after her, as she was a widow with two children. “He (Ramdas) threatened to commit suicide if I speak to the media and reveal our conversations, which I had recorded in my mobile handset,” Premkumari told news anchors. Even as Premkumari was briefing the media Tuesday evening outside a government office where she works, Ramdas reportedly called on her mobile phone and threatened to consume poison if she did not stop talking to the media. Ramdas, who held the medical education portfolio in the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state, lost to the Congress candidate in the May 2013 state legislative assembly elections from the Krishnaraja constituency in the Old Mysore region. IANS