Karnataka should organise Tipu Sultan jayanti, says his descendent

Tipu Sultan’s descendant, Saheb Dada Mansoor Ali, on Monday, urged the Karnataka government to take responsibility to organise the Tipu Jayanti in the state.
Speaking to the media, Ali also expressed concerns about the encroachment of lands belonging to Tipu Sultan’s family and demanded that the Karnataka government retrieve these lands and bring them under the Waqf Board.
“The state government is not organising Tipu Jayanti celebrations. The government must take responsibility for organising Tipu Jayanti,” Sahebzada Syed Mansoor Ali Tipu said in Hindi.

“The government should ensure Tipu Jayanti is celebrated. If not, we will resort to intense protests in the coming days,” he said.
The 18th century ruler has been at the centre of a war of words between the Congress and BJP for several years.
The row over the Muslim ruler first started in 2016, when the then Siddaramaiah-led Congress government began celebrating his birthday on November 10 as ‘Tipu Jayanti’. However, the BJP opposed the move and it was scrapped after it came to power in the state in 2019.