Bengaluru, November 9: The right-wing Hindu group, including the Rashtria Swayamsevak Sangh had threated to disrupt Karnataka government’s plan to celebrate the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Tipu Sultan even after Karnataka’s Chief Minister Siddaramaiah describe him a s ‘true secularist’ on Saturday. Also Read - Chapter On Tipu Sultan & Haider Ali Dropped From Class 7 Textbook In Karnataka: Report

Historians on Monday had hit on Bhartiya Janata Party by calling Tipu, the ruler of Mysore as anti-national. Read Also: (Pejawar Swami against celebrating Tipu Sultan birth anniversary) Also Read - Bangalore Lockdown: Total Shutdown For 15 Days After Tuesday? Here's What New BBMP Commissioner Says

The statement of Siddaramaiah came a day after the RSS announced that they will agitate against the governments decision to celebrate Tipu’s birth anniversary. Also Read - Bangalore Lockdown: Will There be a Complete Shutdown Across Karnataka After July 22? CM BSY Finally Breaks His Silence

A legislator, Go Madhusudan, from Mysore, descried Tipu as an anti-national saying that “Let’s not forget the recorded fact that he invited Afghan king Ahmad Shah Abdali to wage a war against India. This shows he was an anti-national and doesn’t deserve to be venerated. He had persecuted and converted Hindus living in his kingdom”.

Last week Qamrul Islam, Karnataka’s Minister for Minorities Affairs, had announced that the government will celebrate birhday of Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, on November 10.

Siddaramaih said that opposing the celebration of Mysore ruler’s birth anniversary is an agenda of communal forces. Siddaramaih said, “Tipu was a secu person and he fought three wars against British rulers”.

He further added, “Tipu Sultan birth anniversary should have been celebrated by the state long ago but has got delayed. This is a conspiracy by the RSS and other communal forces. It is an attempt to disturb harmony in the society”.

Tipu was both feared and hated by the British for being a strong adversary. The hatred found vent in propaganda, which, centuries later, has inspired canards about Tipu that pop-up in social media every now and then. Yet today, the British place Tipu along with Napoleon among the greatest adversaries they ever faced in history.

Sir Walter Scott, commented on the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 thus: “Although I never supposed that he (Napoleon) possessed, allowing for some difference of education, the liberality of conduct and political views which were sometimes exhibited by old Haidar Ally, yet I did think he (Napoleon) might have shown the same resolved and dogged spirit of resolution which induced Tippoo Saib to die manfully upon the breach of his capital city with his sabre clenched in his hand.”