The saffron party has demanded that the garden in turn be named after someone like Maulana Azad or Havaldar Abdul Hamid of the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war. The Hindu community will not tolerate this kind of a decision,” said Dr Uday Dhuri, spokesperson of the outfit, in the letter.īJP MP Manoj Kotak also voiced out concerns over the decision saying that Shiv Sena was 'straying away from Hindutva' after forming the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state. A cross-section of the new generation of historians and novelists is of the opinion that all the available documents and history books on Tipu Sultan originate from the British and, therefore, they cannot be relied upon, the ostensible policy of the British being to ‘divide and rule’.

He had demolished several Hindu temples and committed atrocities on women during his rule. Confessions of Tipu Sultan on Hindu Atrocities: Whitewashed by Secular and Communist Historians. We are against naming a garden after him because he used to forcefully convert Hindus to Islam. “Tipu Sultan was a cruel king who killed Hindus. Opposing the move, a delegation of Hindu Janjagruti Samiti met Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar to submit a letter saying that Sultan had 'demolished several Hindu temples and committed atrocities on women during his rule' and hence the name was not deemed appropriate. The suggestion by the SP leader was accepted by the BMC and was tabled for approval by the committee on Thursday. In January 2021, Samajwadi Party's Rukhsana Siddique wrote a letter to the Markets and Garden Committee to name the garden after Sultan saying that the 'Tiger of Mysore had opposed the British rule in South India.' She stated that the name was deemed fit since before its reconstruction, the garden was also encroached by anti-social elements. The proposal was presented during a meeting of the committee on Thursday for a two-acre garden in Govandi near the Deonar Dumping ground which the BMC is expected to remodel by December. However, the renaming of the garden courted controversy after Hindu outfits and the BJP opposed the renaming of the land to honour 'a cruel king who killed Hindus.'

A controversy erupted in the Shiv Sena-ruled BMC after the civic body tabled a proposal to name a revamped garden in Mumbai after Tipu Sultan.

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