With the meeting election in Karnataka approaching, kingdom BJP President Nalin Kumar Kateel sparked a clean row via way of means of announcing that the election contest is among descendants of Tipu Sultan and devotees of Ram and Hanuman. He stated folks that love Tipu Sultan need to now no longer stay withinside the kingdom.
Addressing a meeting at Koppal district`s Yelaburga, BJP chief requested whether or not the human beings of the district are devotees of Lord Ram and Hanuman or sing Tipu’s bhajans. “We’re devotees of Lord Ram & Hanuman. We’re now no longer Tipu’s descendants, we despatched his descendants back. So I ask the human beings of Yelaburga, do you worship Hanuman or sing Tipu’s bhajans? Will you ward off folks that sing Tipu’s bhajans?” Nalin Kumar stated as quoted via way of means of information corporation ANI.
“So, suppose if this kingdom calls for Tipu’s descendants or Lord Ram’s and Hanuman’s devotees? I assignment at the land of Hanuman – folks that love Tipu need to now no longer live here, folks that sing Lord Ram’s bhajans and rejoice Lord Hanuman need to live here,” he added.
However, this isn’t the primary time he prompted controversy, in advance this 12 months in January, he confronted flak from the competition for asking celebration employees to prioritise the problem of “love jihad” over the troubles of roads and sewer.
“I instructed them now no longer to speak approximately roads, gutters, drains and different small troubles…. If the problem regarding your children`s lives — love jihad — needs to be stopped, then we want the BJP to shape the government,” Kateel instructed celebration employees as quoted via way of means of IE.