Amid the debate surrounding Vokkaliga chieftans Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda, Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje, who held a press convention in Bengaluru on Sunday to justify that the 2 killed Tipu Sultan, walked away while requested approximately the LPG rate hike.
Karandlaje, held the click meet to show the life of the 2 characters, who the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declare to have killed Tipu Sultan. This has irked the Opposition Congers and JD(S), who termed it as `distortion of history’.
At the click convention, while a reporter requested approximately the hike in LPG prices, Karandlaje walks away saying, “I’ve come to talk approximately Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda today. I’ll communicate approximately LPG rate hike a few different day.”
The union minister on Saturday had stated that eminent Kannada creator D Javaregowda`s studies ee-e book Suvarna Mandya has references to Vokkaliga chieftains, which she relied upon as proof proving the life of the 2 characters.
“The Congress and JD(S) have argued that Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda did now no longer even exist. The ee-e book Suvarna Mandya has references to their combat in opposition to Tipu Sultan,” Karandlaje informed reporters.
“In Mangaluru, Tipu killed heaps of Christians. In Kodagu, he massacred the Kodavas. Even to this day, Mandyam Iyengars in Melkote don`t rejoice Deepavali. Has every person requested why? That`s because, on one Naraka Chaturdashi, heaps of Iyengars have been killed through Tipu Sultan in Melkote,” Karandlaje stated.
While Historians have lengthy believed that Tipu Sultan become killed through the British throughout the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, right-wing businesses and the BJP declare the Vokkaliga chieftans killed the 18th-Century Mysuru ruler.
The difficulty got here to the fore throughout Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s go to to Karnataka to inaugurate the Mysuru-Bengaluru motorway recently, while 4 arches have been positioned up at the route. One of them become named after Kempe Gowda, the second after Krishnaraja Wodeyar, the 0.33 after Sir M Visvesvaraya, and the fourth arch had the names of Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda. However, the arch become eliminated after the Oppostion threatened to protest.
Meanwhile, Kannada movie manufacturer and Horticulture Minister N Murirathna, who had determined to provide a Kannada film `Uri Gowda – Nanje Gowda`, withdrew his choice after assembly Adichunchanagiri Mutt seer Nirmalanandanatha Swamiji in Mandya on Monday. The Vokkaliga seer reportedly slammed the minister for figuring out to make the film at the warriors with none files or statistics approximately their involvement in Tipu`s killing.
