Congress MLA pays tributes to Tipu on birth anniversary
Bengaluru, Nov 10 (IANS) Congress legislator Tanveer Sait on Sunday paid tributes to 18th century controversial Mysore ruler Hazrath Tipu Sultan (1750-1799) in Karnataka’s Srirangapatna on the latter’s 270th birth anniversary, a party official said.”Though the BJP government discontinued Tipu Jayanthi from this year owing to opposition from its legislators and right-wing groups, Sait, cadres and religious leaders paid tributes to the erstwhile king by offering flowers and a shawl (chadar) to his tomb at Gumbaz in Srirangapatna,” party’s state unit spokesman Ravi Gowda told IANS here.As the Karnataka High Court on November 6 did not stay the state government’s July 30 decision to ban Tipu Jayanthi on November 10 in its interim order but allowed it privately or personally, hundreds of Muslims celebrated it along with Prophet Mohammed’s birthday on Eid-Miladin-Nabi across the southern state amid tight security.Sait, a four-time lawmaker from the Narasimharaja assembly segment in Mysuru, about 150 km southwest of Bengaluru, is also chairman of Tipu’s Saheed Wakf Estate in the state’s cultural capital.Inayath ur Rahman Rizvi, Shahi Imam, Masjid e Aqsa, Gumbaz, prayed and read some verses of the Holy Quran.Mandya district Waqf advisory committee chairman Shaik Ubaidn Ull, Sultan Sheed Waqf Estate secretary Irfan Pasha, former corporator K.C.
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