Did Jagadish Shettar dress up as Tipu Sultan?

Shettar however denied that he was dressed up as Tipu Sultan.

A photograph of former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar dressed as Tipu Sultan has gone viral on the social media. This provided much fodder to the Congress which has been criticised by the BJP for celebrating Tipu Jayanti on a grand scale.

Former Deputy chief minister R Ashoka and former Lok Sabha member D B Chandre Gowda are also seen wearing the headgear in the photograph. The Congress was quick to react and said that this exposed the double standards of the BJP.

Shettar however denied that he was dressed up as Tipu Sultan. He said that the photograph was from an award function of the party's minority morcha and they were given headgears and swords, he also said.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said Shettar had written a foreword to a book praising the valour of Tipu. Shettar had called Tipu a patriot in a book written by historian Sheikh Ali.

Many BJP leaders, including Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde, had refused to join the birthday celebrations of Tipu Sultan, terming him "anti-Hindu and anti-Kannada." BJP general secretary and MP Shobha Karandlaje said the party will launch a protest if the government goes ahead with the celebrations.

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