MYSURU:  Former minister and Congress MLA Tanveer Sait registered a police complaint alleging that he has received a death threat for announcing to install the tallest statue of Tipu Sultan in Mysore, police said on Friday.

Raghu, a Hindu activist from Sakleshpur in the Hassan district, has been the target of a complaint made to the Udayagiri police.

Sait has announced that he will install the 108-foot-tallest statue of Tipu Sultan in either the historic city of Mysuru or the city of Srirangapatna.

In response, Raghu requested him to apologise for making the statement on the statue's placement in a video. He said in Kannada, "If the statement is not retracted,  the place is ready for your burial"

On social media, video had become viral. K.C. Shaukat Pasha, Secretary of the Bidi Mazdoor Association, and MLA Tanveer Sait had both reported the threat to the police.

Sait, a well-known minority leader from south Karnataka, represents the Narasimharaja Assembly constituency in Mysuru city and carries on his father Azeez Sait's political history. He allegedly suffered a stabbing from an SDPI employee in 2019.

Tanveer Sait announced the construction of a statue of Tipu Sultan and criticised the ruling BJP and Hindu organizations for attempting to defame and misrepresent the 18th-century tyrant Tipu Sultan for political purposes.
Tanveer Sait said, "Though building monuments is prohibited by Islam, the necessity for such a symbol is essential in the current situation where BJP and Sangh Parivar are carrying out a constant campaign to slander the ruler who battled the British and sacrificed their lives for the country.

Tanveer Sait said that he believed in the Indian constitution and has the same rights as everyone else when Hindu organisations directly threatened to demolish the Tipu Sultan statue.

Tipu Sultan was a religious zealot who engaged in the wholesale conversion of Hindus using harsh methods, according to the ruling BJP and Hindu organisations. Tipu Jayanthi was begun by the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government but was halted and outlawed by the BJP in power.

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