Congress MLA demands to name Mysuru airport after Tipu Sultan

BJP opposes the proposal

Bengaluru (Karnataka) – A Congress MLA’s proposal to change the names of airports in Karnataka has been unanimously approved. The proposal calls for naming the Mysuru Airport as ‘Tipu Sultan Airport’. This has been opposed by the BJP. In this proposal, Hubballi Airport is named after Krantiveer Sangoli Rayanna, Belagavi Airport is named after Kittur Rani Chennamma, Shivamogga Airport is named after Dr KV Puttappa Airport. After this, Congress MLA from Hubballi Prasad Abbayya proposed to name Mysuru Airport as Tipu Sultan Airport.

Toilets should be named after Tipu Sultan – BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal

Basangouda Patil Yatnal

BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal said that the Mysuru airport should be named after Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. Toilets, not airports should be named after Tipu Sultan who destroyed temples.

Tipu Sultan is not given importance because he was a Muslim – Actor Ahimsa Chetan

Ahimsa Chetan

“Tipu Sultan is a significant historical personality. Tipu Sultan is not being recognised as he was born as a Muslim. Unfortunately, birth community is given more importance than societal contributions. MLA Yatnal says, ‘name toilet after Tipu’. Toilets can be cleaned but communal filth in Yatnal’s mind can never be cleaned”, said actor Ahimsa Chetan in a social media message. He also criticised that, “Kempegowda, a marginal historic figure (Kempegowda , a chieftain under the Vijayanagara Empire, founded Bengaluru in 1537) is now a major KA icon because of feudal caste lobbies but Tipu Sultan is a historic juggernaut whose Muslim birth has impeded his present-day recognition”.

Editorial Perspectives

• Is this acceptable to the Hindus of Karnataka who voted for the Congress and put it in power ?

• Tipu Sultan was a Muslim and he converted 1 lakh Hindus in a single day, killed thousands of Hindus, and demolished Hindu temples. This is why Hindus have resisted doing anything in his name and will continue to do so.