Whereas reacting to Congress MLA Tanveer Sait’s proposal to put in a 100-feet statue of Tipu Sultan at Srirangapatna in Karnataka’s Mandya district, JD(S) state president CM Ibrahim Sunday mentioned there was no tradition of establishing statues amongst Muslims.
Chatting with reporters, Ibrahim requested whether or not there was any statue of a Muslim chief in India. “We are able to have his title, however not his statue,” he mentioned.
On Saturday, Sait triggered robust reactions from the ruling BJP over his proposal to put in the statue. His assertion got here a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a 108-feet statue of Kempegowda.
Sait had mentioned the statue of Tipu Sultan would symbolise the ‘true historical past’ of the area, including that the BJP was distorting historical past related to the ruler. The Congress legislator from Narasimharaja constituency in Mysuru had maintained that he would set up the statue regardless of a prohibition on idols in Islam.
Requested concerning the AIMIM’s declare of contesting 100 Meeting seats within the subsequent elections, Ibrahim mentioned the Asaduddin Owaisi-led celebration was free to take action. Nonetheless, he alluded that the celebration had an ‘understanding’ with the BJP.
“How did the BJP grant permission to the AIMIM to organise the Tipu Jayanti celebration in Hubballi?” he requested, referring to the occasion held on the ‘controversial’ Edgah Maidan within the metropolis.
The Muslim neighborhood was firmly behind the JD(S) and the AIMIM was contesting the election to divide minority votes, he contended.