00:01Karnataka's D.K. Shivakumar-led government's push to promote Tipu Sultan's legacy has
00:06triggered a fresh political flashpoint once again. First Minister Yuti Khadr has appealed
00:11to television channels to dedicate 30 minutes to documentaries on Tipu Sultan, saying that
00:16the government will support such initiatives. And now Minister Priyankar Gay has stepped
00:20up the offensive, telling the BJP to get its history right. He says Tipu fought four Anglo-Mysor
00:27wars while accusing the RSS of having played no role in the freedom struggle.
00:57Nothing they did. And they are the ones who are dictating terms now. And the BJP was saying
01:04no to Tipu Jayanti when Yedirapaji was the chief minister. He sang praises of Tipu Sultan in
01:11a book. And you cannot take away the contributions of Tipu Sultan to the state. And this is nothing
01:21but politics. When they want votes, they are pro-minority. When they don't want, they are behaving
01:27like this.
01:28In the world.
01:28How should I say?
01:29I was scared.
01:31I was scared.
01:33How did they say?
01:36I was scared.
01:37I was scared.
01:37I was scared.
01:38I was scared.
01:40I was scared.
01:41I was scared.
01:41I was scared.
01:42But there are all kinds of people who have been fighting for the BJP.
01:43But not only the BJP government did not have a video.
01:45They are the people who have not been fighting for the rights of the country who have
01:49talked to them.
01:57Siddharaman has to take care of it, who will tell us, who will tell us, who will tell us.
02:06Okay.
02:06It is necessary.
02:07Not in our companies, not in our clubs, not in our railway, but in our media.
02:14Not in any machine.
02:17.
02:17As a lawyer.
02:23They just have to make a documentary.
02:28It is also not in Honolulu.
02:30They are called theations and documents.
02:35This is not in a documentary.
02:50So, is Tipu Sultan a hero or a hate figure?
02:54Let's understand.
02:55So, he remains a divisive figure, hero to some, tyrant to others.
02:59So, people have different opinions about his rule and his actions.
03:02He faces forced conversion charge of Hindus and also the Christians.
03:08So, he's accused of forcing Hindus and Christians to convert to Islam.
03:12His cool campaigns involved mass captivity and persecution.
03:15So, his military campaigns in cool reportedly involved capturing and persecuting people.
03:20He forcibly took thousands of Christians to his kingdom.
03:23So, he's accused of forcibly relocating thousands of Christians to his kingdom.
03:28He's also accused of destroying many Hindu temples.
03:31And that is also the point that the BJP and the RSS have been raising.
03:37So, he faced allegations of destroying Hindu temples during his campaigns.
03:42His Malabar campaigns are linked to violence and conversion.
03:45So, it is associated with violence and forced religious conversions like I mentioned earlier.
03:51His defenders cite Tipu's temple grants also.
03:55So, his supporters point to his donations and grants to the Hindu temples.
04:00Tipu died fighting the British and earned freedom fighter tag.
04:04So, he died battling the British in 1799 and is remembered by some as an anti-colonial hero.
04:10And that is exactly the defense from the Congress party who is saying that on one hand,
04:15it is the RSS that played no role in the freedom struggle.
04:17On the other hand, it's Tipu Sultan who fought against the British.
04:20So, why do we listen to what the RSS is saying?
