A controversy linked to Tipu Sultan has once again emerged in Karnataka after a group of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders vandalized one of the freedom fighters hoarding at Corporation Circle in Bangalore.

The mob led by VHP leader Puneeth Kerehalli torn up the hoarding featuring Tippu Sultan shouting Jai Sri Ram. Later he said it’s revenge for the insult of Savarkar’s photo in Shivmogga.

Another poster of Tipu Sultan put up by Karnataka Congress at Hudson Circle was also vandalized by unknown persons on Saturday night. While, the Congress alleged that the VHP leaders have done it ahead of the Independence Day celebration in the state.

Ahead of the 75th Independence Day celebrations, the Karnataka Congress had put up hoardings of freedom fighters and also put a hoarding of Tipu Sultan at Corporation Circle in Bangalore.

Hitting out at the VHP, Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar warned that the situation may turn for the worse in the state after the vandalization of Tipu Sultan posters in Bengaluru. He also demanded the arrest of miscreants on his fresh visit to the venue after the incident.

Karnataka Congress chief said few miscreants are trying to disturb the peace in this city. Many posters at KR circle and Hudson circle have been damaged and this is an insult to the great freedom fighter, he said.

Kumar also said the ASI has even decorated the Tipu Palace in Chamarajpet of Bengaluru for Independence Day and the BJP government still has a problem with Tipu Sultan. All these silly attempts are because they are not able to digest the Freedom March planned by the Congress in the city, he said.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader condemned the incident asking if Savarkar, who came out of jail and wrote an apology letter to the British, became a freedom fighter, Tipu Sultan, who fought the four Anglo-Mysore wars and died in the war as a hostage to the British, is not a freedom fighter?

The Karnataka Congress is organizing a freedom march on August 15 in Bengaluru in a bid to mark the sacrifices of all the freedom fighters.

Earlier in May, a row over Tipu Sultan had erupted in Karnataka after the state education board had decided to exclude chapters on Tipu Sultan from Class X social science textbook. Later, the Karnataka Primary and Secondary Education Minister BC Nagesh had clarified that unverifiable claims regarding Tipu Sultan had been removed.

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