Tipu for the sake of his self and to build his empire fought against British aligning with the French. There is enough documentation available that he had massacred 50000 Hindus, destroyed temples, converted Hindus and Christians to Islam. For a matter of fact even Tipu’s officials have documented it.
A fanatic traitor like Tipu does not deserve to be celebrated in the state. It is a need of the hour that we celebrate anniversaries of great people who have contributed to the society and not ones who have disturbed peace time and again’ opined Sri Gopal who is the Zonal VHP Convenor in the Tipu Jayanti Horata Samiti Mega conference in Bangalore city today.
It is not just the RSS or its parivar organizations but many nationalistic thinkers have written about Tipu’s tyrannny and deceit Gopal ji said.
The people of Kodagu and not surprisingly many Congress supporters also have taken an anti-Tipu stand also opposing a Jayanti to commemorate him. Yet the single point agenda of the government to appease Muslim minority is only ending up to a stage where the Muslim youth are getting focussed more on the tyrant Tipu and supporting his thoughts of religious fanaticism than working on nationalistic ideas for the betterment of the country. The outfits like the PFI, SDPI have taken Tipu ad their role model and are involved in similar anti social activities in the state he said.
Change of names of places , Kannada replaced by Persian as official language of the state were all from him prove the condemnation for the Jayanti he concluded.