As Karnataka polls near, BJP and Congress spar over Vokkaliga chieftains who ‘killed’ Tipu Sultan

With weeks left for the Karnataka Assembly polls, political events withinside the kingdom are once more tussling over the Tipu Sultan issue. This time, a few BJP leaders had been backing the claims that the erstwhile Mysuru ruler, a polarising discern withinside the kingdom, became killed now no longer via way of means of the British however Vokkaliga chieftains — Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda. The Congress and the JD(S), on the opposite hand, declare that the 2 chieftains did now no longer even exist.

The names of Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda got here to the fore after the ...