Siddaramaiah: The new sultan of Karnataka

After initial lacklustre performance, CM Siddaramaiah has consolidated his hold on the party and govt

Come elections, come controversies. As Karnataka heads for the Assembly elections next year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has raised concerns over the government deciding to celebrate Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan’s birth anniversary on November 10.

First came the missive by Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde, a parliamentarian from the state, to the Siddaramaiah government for not inviting him for the event to remember the warrior king, who died fighting the British in 1799. Hegde had called Tipu, known as the Tiger of Mysore, a “brutal killer, wretched fanatic and mass rapist”. BJP State President 

B S Yeddyurappa too had asked