Tipu Jayanti: BJP all set to take on Siddaramaiah
- Karnataka BJP to take out anti-Tipu Jayanti rally
- Party to observe November 10 as black day
- Karnataka BJP leader Yeddyurappa to meet Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in this regard
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Speaking at an "anti-Tipu Jayanti" rally here, as the party held state-wide protests on the issue, Yeddyurappa asked the party cadre to observe November 10 as a "black day" and court arrest on that day.
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Yeddyurappa declared that within 24-hours of coming to power, the BJP government would cancel Tipu Jayanti.
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Tipu Jayanti, slated to be celebrated across the state on November 10, is being observed since last year following a Congress government decision, which had triggered a major row and caused violence in Kodagu district in November last.
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Tipu Sultan was the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore kingdom, on whose reign academics, historians and eminent public personalities hold differing views, often engaging in public sparring.
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Tipu Sultan is treated by some as a "religious bigot" who ruthlessly killed and converted people to Islam, while others consider him as a great secular ruler who fought the British.
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Yeddyurappa also said that he would call on Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi tomorrow and explain the precarious law and order situation in Karnataka.
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All the cases of murder of RSS/BJP workers that have taken place in Karnataka must be referred to the National Investigating Agency (NIA) if truth has to come out, he said.
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Flaying the Siddaramaiah government, he said 'the beginning of the end of the Congress rule' in the state had begun.
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"At the most, Siddaramaiah can carry on his Tughlak Durbar for one year," he said.