Kolkata: 

After a BJP MLA in Karnataka mentioned classes on the 18th century ruler of the erstwhile Mysore kingdom Tipu Sultan have to be faraway from textbooks, a descendant of the king mentioned that it’s shameful that he being focused for vote financial institution politics.

Chatting with information company ANI, Md Shahid Alam mentioned, “History can never be deleted. Tipu Sultan was a freedom fighter. I will write a letter to the Prime Minister regarding this.”

“Some people are playing vote bank politics which is quite shameful. People cannot deny that he was a freedom fighter. History is like this and will remain so in future,” he added.

On Wednesday, Karnataka BJP chief Appachu Ranjan wrote to Training Minister S Suresh Kumar asking for Tipu Sultan’s reference to be struck off historical past textbooks.

In a letter, Mr Ranjan wrote that Tipu Sultan has been portrayed as a freedom fighter and historical past shouldn’t be written with false details.

“Tipu came to Kodagu, Mangaluru and other parts of the state to expand his territory. He came here just to convert people to his religion and to expand his kingdom,” he mentioned.

He added that king had no respect for Kannada as his administrative language was Persian. “He changed names of places. He looted many temples and Christian churches as well. In Kodagu, he converted 30 thousand Kodavas,” Mr Ranjan wrote in his letter.

source: http://www.heraldpublicist. om / Herald Publicist / Home> News / by Pete / October 24th, 2019