Tipu Sultan row: BJP MLA files police complaints against Aslam Shaikh, Mumbai mayor
India Today
The row over naming of a Mumbai sports complex after Tipu Sultan escalated on Thursday as a BJP MLA filed a police complaint against Congress leader and Mumbai's guardian minister Aslam Shaikh and Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar.
BJP MLA Ameet Satam has filed a police complaint against Congress leader and Mumbai's guardian minister Aslam Shaikh and Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, accusing them of circulating a letter with his fake signatures.
The matter is linked with the controversy over the 'renaming' of a sports complex in Mumbai's Malad after 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan. The BJP had protested against the dedication ceremony held on Wednesday, while Congress had claimed that the complex was always named after the erstwhile ruler. The ceremony was merely to inaugurate some additional sports facilities in the complex.
Aslam Shaikh had also said that the BJP leaders were trying to create controversy even as their own leaders had dedicated a road in the name of Tipu Sultan. The Congress leader even circulated a letter showing that Ameet Satam had initiated a proposal to rename the road when he was a corporator.
However, Ameet Satam on Thursday claimed that the said letter was fake, and his signature had been forged.
"Some proposal is being circulated by Minister Aslam Shaikh and Mayor Kishori Pednekar about me seconding a proposal to rename a road. My name has been tampered with. I have the original documents with me and hence I am filing a complaint of forgery," Satam said.
'Even President praised Tipu Sultan'
Leaders of Maha Aghadi Alliance attacked the BJP leaders on Thursday for 'creating controversy' over nothing. The leaders of Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party said that Tipu SUltan was always a controversy free ruler, but the BJP was now trying to create an issue due to upcoming polls.
