For an embattled Janata Dal (Secular), which has been struggling to retain its identity and relevance in Karnataka politics, the alleged sex scandal involving its incumbent MP in Hassan Prajwal Revanna has come as a new blow. It has not only embarrassed the party and the family of the party’s patriarch, former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda, it has also put the party in the spot over its future course of action against Mr. Gowda’s grandson.