Will you give away land which Tipu Sultan donated for Temples, should that community ask?: HDK
Mysuru: Amidst the controversies over mosques and temples, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Wednesday asked if the Hindus will return the lands donated by Tipu Sultan for temples during his regime.
“Tipu Sultan had donated land to several Hindu Temples. If that community were to come and ask for it, will you be ready to give?” he questioned.
Speaking to the media representatives at the Mandakalli Airport in the city on Wednesday, he said, “Some people are needlessly creating confusion about the Srirangapatna Jamiya Masjid. Did God come in their dreams and tell them that it was his original place? Did he ask it to be corrected?” he asked.
“In his time, Tipu donated land to several Hindu temples. If this were to appear in that community’s dreams, then would they leave the land for that community? Setting aside all of this, look out for people’s lives”, Kumaraswamy said.
Voicing that the country will not have a good future because of this kind of an environment, he expressed fear of such developments continuing another year and said, “Their work is to just create unrest in the society. Therefore, the country is facing an imminent fear of increased unrest”, he expressed his sadness.
Addressing the issue about B.S Yediyurappa’s son losing out on the ticket to contest in the Parishad, Kumaraswamy said, “Citing some principle, they haven’t given him the ticket. I see symptoms of this coming back to harm the BJP. There is no question of other parties experiencing loss or gain because of this. However, this will bring some serious consequences to the government. There are symptoms of bad consequences falling upon the administration. Groupism is likely to increase within the BJP”, he said.
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Selective Reporting? Right-wing portal omits names of all accused in Suhas Shetty murder reporting
Mangaluru: Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair has accused right-wing website OpIndia of selectively naming only a few of the accused arrested in the murder case of rowdy-sheeter Suhas Shetty, while deliberately omitting the names of Hindu accused from their report.
In a tweet posted after police revealed the full list of those arrested, Zubair pointed out that OpIndia's tweet mentioned only Muslim names—Abdul Safwan, Mohammed Muzammil, and Mohammed Rizwan—while leaving out Ranjit and Nagaraj, who also face charges in the same case.
According to the police, a total of eight people have been arrested: Abdul Safwan, Niyaz, Mohammed Muzammil, Kalandar Shafi, Mohammed Rizwan, Adil Mahroof, Ranjit, and Nagaraj. Police Commissioner Anupam Agrawal has confirmed that the murder was a result of a personal rivalry and revenge plot. Safwan, the main accused, allegedly feared that Suhas Shetty's gang would kill him, prompting him to plan the murder.
Zubair alleged that by leaving out the names of Ranjit and Nagaraj—both of whom are non-Muslims—OpIndia was attempting to maintain a narrative that the murder was religiously motivated. This goes against the facts presented by police, which made it clear that the incident was not communal in nature but a gang-related revenge killing.
Earlier, several right-wing handles on social media had claimed that Suhas Shetty was targeted because of his religious identity, using the murder to attack the Congress-led state government and alleging that Hindus were unsafe in Karnataka. The BJP too had demanded an NIA probe, calling the murder an act of terror carried out by "Jihadis."
RW propaganda website @OpIndia_com intentionally doesn't mention names of other accused arrested after the murder of Rowdy-sheeter because the complete list of accused includes Ranjit & Nagaraj apart from Abdul Safwan, Niyaz, Mohammed Muzammil, Kalandar Shafi, Mohammed Rizwan,… pic.twitter.com/JmdcaxtP2H
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) May 3, 2025
