{"id":445158,"date":"2023-02-10T13:31:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T08:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=445158"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T09:41:14","slug":"karnataka-naleen-kateel-tipu-savarkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/karnataka-naleen-kateel-tipu-savarkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka state chief says elections is all about Tipu vs Savarkar, sparks controversy again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bharatiya Janata Party\u2019s Karnataka president Nalin Kateel has run into controversy again as the BJP state president on Wednesday said that the upcoming assembly election in Karnataka is about Tipu vs Savarkar. The comments by Kateel came to light while he was addressing a public meet in Karnataka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP state chief in his address on Wednesday said that this time election will not be between BJP and Congress but will be between the ideologies of Savarkar vs Tipu.. Naleen in his address also launched an attack on the Congress and said that the Congress allowed celebrating Tipu Jayanti which was not needed. The Karnataka BJP President also said that the Congress spoke ill about Savarkar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BJP Karnataka Chief Naleen Kateel also challenged senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah to debate if the country needs a patriotic people like Savarkar or Tipu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement by the Karnataka BJP chief comes ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections which are due to be held in a couple of months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is not the first time the BJP\u2019s Karnataka president has also climbed the headlines for his remarks as previously he struck controversy for advising the BJP party workers to prioritise on fighting love jihad instead of focusing on civic issues such as roads and sewage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remarks by the Karnataka BJP chief came while he was addressing a meeting of the party workers at Booth Vijaya Abhiyan in Mangalore. Kateel in his address said and advised the party workers to not discuss civic issues like roads and sewage and said that if they are worried about their children\u2019s future and if they want to stop Love Jihad, the state needs BJP to get rid of Love Jihad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the remarks by Kateel about prioritising on Love Jihad surfaced, Congress\u2019s Karnataka chief DK Shivakumar said that the BJP leader had made the worst answer and alleged the BJP of dividing the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The statement by the Karnataka BJP chief comes ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections which are due to be held in a couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":445164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Karnataka state chief says elections is all about Tipu vs Savarkar, sparks controversy again\n\n#Viral #BJP #Karnataka #News #Congress #NalinKateel #KarnatakaAssemblyElections #Trending ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[75987,4,125714,110599],"tags":[86,111,150288,153892,153893],"yst_prominent_words":[5901,20926,3813,7536,5963,48668,19103,23960,16317,11246,3817,81881,21018,26515],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/02\/10132842\/Screenshot_20230210_132459-1-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445158"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=445158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=445158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}