Karnataka Govt firm on Tipu Jayanti despite intelligence warning

October 29, 2016

Bengaluru, Oct 29: The Kannada and Culture department on Friday decided to go ahead with the Tipu Jayanti celebrations on November 10. The state-level celebrations will be organised in Bengaluru.

tipuThis was decided at a meeting convened by Kannada and Culture Minister Umashree in Bengaluru.

According to official sources, the meeting was convened after the state intelligence wing reportedly advised the government not to organise the Jayanti, especially after the incidents of violence witnessed in Kodagu last year.

Two persons, including a member of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, had died in the clashes between two groups.

However, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is supposed to have instructed officials to go ahead with the Jayanti celebrations. Also, unlike last year, this year, the Kannada and Culture department has been vested with the responsibility of organising the event. Last year, the Directorate of Minorities had organised the celebration.

To invite Hindu seers

Umashree had convened the meeting, which was attended by Ministers Tanveer Sait and Roshan Baig as well as the heads of the Wakf Board and Urdu Academy.

At the meeting, it was resolved to invite Hindu religious leaders, including seers Veerabhadra Channamalla of Nidumamidi Mutt, Sri Bharati Teertha of Sringeri Shankar Mutt and Vishwesha Teertha of Pejawar Mutt, in a bid to showcase that the Jayanti is not a “religious” event.

When contacted, Baig said that there were no reports from the intelligence wing. He said that the Nidumamidi Mutt seer would be the speaker, and efforts were on to contact other seers.

He argued that Tipu Jayanti is not a religious celebration. “We are keen that the Sringeri Mutt swami participates because till date the Mutt has carried on with the tradition ofSultan Aarti'. Tipu had helped restore the temple at Sringeri after it was plundered by the Marathas. He had even donated money and jewels to the temple,” Baig added.

RSS?to back protests against event

The RSS will oppose the government's plan to celebrate Tipu Jayanti and will support protests planned by members of the Sangha Parivar.

Addressing reporters, RSS?Kshetriya Sanchalak V?Nagaraj said Tipu was “intolerant and a bigot”. “He was an intolerant king. He killed innocent Kodavas. Several historians including Kirmani and Mutthanna have chronicled Tipu's religious hatred and bigotry,” he said, reports DHNS from Bengaluru .

Nagaraj said there was no demand from the Muslim community for holding Tipu Jayanti. “It is obvious that the government is organising Tipu Jayanti on November 10 with political interest in mind.”

The RSS has not organised any protest to oppose Tipu Jayanti. The RSS?will support protest rallies planned by various organisations in Chitradurga and Bengaluru on November 2 and 8 respectively, he said.

Roshan baig, Minister: We are keen that the Sringeri Mutt swami participates because till date the Mutt has carried on with the tradition ofSultan Aarti'. Tipu had helped restore the temple at Sringeri after it was plundered by the Marathas. He had even donated money and jewels to the temple.

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Fairman
 - 
Sunday, 30 Oct 2016

Why and how to celebrate Jayanti.

In Islam, there is no such thing to celebrate birthday.
However there is no harm in remembering someone who was helpful.
I can suggest, don't spend for any statue, don't irrect any statue.
If you have such money, spend it for poor people, poor children. Islam does not sanction any wastage. Spend money for useful purpose, in the memory of such brave people.
In Gujrat state Mody spent huge money for Sardar Patel's statue, Marathis did the same in Maharashtra for Shivaji. The amount spent is 1000 of crore rupees.

Despite of difference of opinions of Tippu's attitude, it is true,

- He was brave, he is the first king to fight against British, he fought 4times. He participated in all wars. Not only that He became martyre in the war like a soldier.

- How many such kings have spent their life in this country or in other parts of this world.
- He Proved If we start resisting our enemy boldly, courageously, one day we can win.

- Therefore the spirit to fight against the British is his inspiration.

- Anyway we have so much approval from so many seers, swamees who admit Tippu was TOLERANT, All his ministers were Hindus.

Rashid
 - 
Saturday, 29 Oct 2016

What intelligent report says, instead of stopping program govt should investigate, and should take necessary actions, find out criminal mongers and punish them..

Asif
 - 
Saturday, 29 Oct 2016

Intelligence is filled with RSS backed people. this report is RSS activist motivated...dont believe Chaddi Intelligence reports. need to sck all RSS backed officers from government agencies.
Also note that, if any law & order disturbers from Chaddis ofcourse there is police department to face the situation.

Devanand
 - 
Saturday, 29 Oct 2016

this s all congress cheap politics, Muslims never celebrated any jayanthi.

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Mangaluru, Aug 4: The Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy has announced the names of the winners of its annual honorary awards (Gaurava Prashasti and Gaurava Puraskara) for the years 2019 and 2020.

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Basheer Ahmed Kinya: He has been involved with the Beary music sector since the last 21 years in the form of singer, and poet. He has provided lyrics for over 150 Beary audio cassettes and also sang them. His first audio cassette, Maskattoru Kallas' had created a record by getting sold out within four to five days. He has also created several non-stop cassettes and Duf songs. 
 
Veena Mangaluru: She has acted in the first Beary cinema. She has acted in over a thousand plays in different languages. 'Mami Marmolu', Kurfat Katte/Amadakaro Chiri, and Shamimarabal are some of the plays she has acted in. 
 
Siddique Manjeshwar: A social worker and activist. Through social media, he led a blood donation campaign and thereby helped thousands of people.  There are over 10,000 members in his 54 WhatsApp groups who are ready for blood donation. His ‘Blood Donate Mangaluru’ drive has been able to collect over 26,000 units of blood and conducting over 250 blood donation camps so far. He was honoured with a special award of the chief minister of Kerala. 

Dr Muhammed Ismail: Dr Muhammed Ismail completed his medical education in 1989 and has been serving different hospitals since the last 30 years being a highly respected doctor. He also is an honorary medical officer of the Wenlock Hospital Mangaluru. He has served as an office-bearer of Indian Medical Association, Karnataka Medico-legal Society etc.
 
T A Mohammed Asif: He has been providing education to over 360 students from LKG to the eighth standard through Adarsh Group of educational institutions. He is also active in the social sector and has distributed school bags and books to poor students. During the lockdown, he distributed free food items worth about Rs 10 lac.
 
Ilyas Mangaluru: He had fought against the menace of dowry. He has got over 500 girls married through an organization, 'Dowry Free Nikah'. He has also created an app, Free Nikah, which helps boys and girls to find suitable matches. 
 
Rash Beary: Abdul Rasheed aka Rash Beary is known for using social media to help the people. By establishing 'Beary Nikah Helpline' he has helped several poor Beary women to get married. He also provides free counselling services to couples from all religions. With the help of donors, he keeps distributing clothes and food among needy.

Safwan Shah Bahrain: A well-known Beary singer, he has sung several songs in past one decade. He has been organizing various Beary programmes in Bahrain for past eight years. He had undertaken the adventure of jumping from the air from a height of 13,000 feet with the Indian flag in hand. 

Abdul Razack Ananantady: A PU college lecturer by profession, he has conducted over 500 pre-exam training camps and functioned as a resource person in leadership and personality development training. He has been conducting training and lectures for students and their parents on learning nutrition, and life values. His addresses on education and cultural aspects have been aired by Akashvani.

Abdul Rahiman Kuthethur: He was the co-editor or Beary Kannada - English dictionary and editor of the first-ever Beary grammar book released in 2019. He also is a member of the experts' committee on the Beary language textbook. He has translated Panchatantra stories, Sarvajna Vachanas etc into Beary language and published collection of poems.

Ismail Tannirbavi: He is known as a Beary theatre personality, who started acting at the age of 17. He has acted in over 300 plays including Beary, Tulu and Kannada. He has been in the theatre since the last 55 year and his plays have been presented in countries like Muscat and Kuwait. 
 
Ahmed Bawa Moidin: A social worker and member of the Beary Study chair. He also is the life member of Beary Sahitya Parishad and member of Human Ethical Committee of Mangalore University. He was the founder vice president of Mangalore Merchant Associate and member of divisional railway users consultative/committee. He has donated blood 53 times. 

 T S Hussain: Hussain is a veteran Beary writer who has defied blindness. He faced many difficulties and challenges in life and also met with an accident in 2008. Because of this accident, his eyesight had become very weak. He continued with the creation of works with determination in spite of failing eyesight with help from friends. He has authored two works and was appreciated for their content. Thereafter, he authored two more works. In 2018, he wrote another work.
 
Abdul Majeed Suralpady: A social worker and activist, he has served in various organizations. He served as the president of Suralpady government higher primary school for 21 years. He also served as the president of the educational committee of South Karnataka Sunni Centre's Al Ihsan English Medium School and got government recognition for the school. He set up PU college for girls and laid two-way road at Kaikamba besides bus shelter, toilet, drinking water system and building for police check post.
 
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Alikunhi Pare: He is the founder president of 'Melthene', a forum of Beary writers and artists. He has also served social, literary, organizational and religious sectors. He has been identified with several organizations including Mangaluru taluk Yuvajana Okkota and Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Muslim Central Committee.

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