Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah for targeting Tipu Jayanti celebrations in the state, saying it was a desperate attempt to communalise the atmosphere.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday hit back at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah for targeting Tipu Jayanti celebrations in the state, saying it was a desperate attempt to communalise the atmosphere.
"We celebrate birthdays of 26 leaders and builders of #NavaKarnataka. @AmitShah in a desperate attempt to communalize, picks on Tipu Jayanthi," Siddaramaiah wrote on Twitter.
In another preceding tweet, he also called out Shah's ignorance about the state, for miscalling Karnataka Rajyotsava as Karnataka Mahotsav.
"Election is coming! It brings tourists like @AmitShah who display ignorance about our state & call #KannadaRajyotsava as 'Karnatak Mahotsav'," Siddaramaiah tweeted.
Amit Shah, while addressing a rally in Bengaluru on Thursday had slammed the Karnataka government for showing enthusiasm on the birth anniversary of 18th century Mysore ruler and claimed it to be 'votebank' politics.
"Karnataka Mahotsav was supposed to be grand but the state government was not enthusiastic about it, instead they are about Tipu Jayanti. This shows vote bank politics which will not benefit the people of Karnataka," the BJP chief had said.
BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government in Karnataka, accusing it of having broken "all records" in corruption. Kickstarting the BJP state unit's "Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivarthana Yatra" at a rally here, he claimed that a survey had found that the state government was the "most corrupt" in the country.
Shah described state BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa, who is spearheading the yatra, as the prospective chief minister and claimed that the 'yatra" would lead to the ouster of the Siddaramaiah government. Shah alleged that the funds released by the central government to the state were not reaching the people they were intended to benefit.
The BJP chief also slammed the state government for celebrating the birth anniversary of 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan as "Tipu Jayanti" on November 10 and claimed that it was "votebank politics".
"The government is more interested in celebrating November 10 as Tipu Jayanti rather than celebrating Kannada Rajyotsava (state formation day which fell yesterday) with grandeur," he claimed. The BJP has been opposing the event as it sees Tipu Sultan as a "religious bigot" and a "brutal killer".
The 75-day yatra, launched at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre grounds off Tumakuru road, is aimed at "exposing" the alleged misdeeds of the Congress government.
Assembly elections are due in Karnataka early next year in which the BJP is hoping to capture power, unseating the government-led by Siddaramaiah. Making history, the BJP had installed its first-ever government in the South in 2008 before losing power to the Congress.
(With agency inputs)
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