[1][2][3][4][5] In February 2012, Spring Zouk, an international festival described as a rave party, was attended by mostly foreign tourists at Udupi beach on at St Mary's Islands.

[8] At a session of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, a camera showed two cabinet ministers, J. Krishna Palemar, Laxman Savadi and C C Patil, allegedly watching pornographic clips on a mobile phone.

[9][10] The ministers said that the video was an investigation of the behavior of foreign tourists at the party on St. Mary's Islands, who were having sex in public and consuming drugs and alcohol at the rave organised by the state tourism department and others.

[14] The hashtag "#porngate" was a top trending word on 8 February 2012 on social media site Twitter.

The BJP is answerable for justifying and defending hypocrites who indulge in moral policing, while themselves violating all norms of decent behaviour.