Prohibitory orders around Tipu Circle in Yadgir over protest threat

YADGIR: The police have imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of IPC at Tipu Circle in Yadgir after the Jai Chhatrapati Shivaji Sene had threatened to stage a protest march on February 27 to demand renaming of the junction after Veer Savarkar.

Prohibitory orders have been imposed near Tipu Circle.

The police also staged a route march earlier in the day covering Tipu Circle and Gandhi Circle. Jai Chhatrapati Shivaji Sene president Parashuram Shegurakar and another activist were also arrested for making provocative speeches. A complaint against him was registered on Sunday by Abdul Karim of Tipu Sultan United Forum.

Jai Chhatrapati Shivaji Sene president Parashuram Shegurakar and another activist were arrested.

A controversy has been brewing over the Tipu Circle here and the Jai Chhatrapati Shivaji Sene set a February 27 deadline for removal of the Tipu nameboard at the junction. However, the Tipu Sultan United Forum has insisted that they will not allow any change of name.

In 1996, a junction on Hattikuni Road was named Mohammed Abdul Kalam Azad Circle, but the name was changed unanimously by the civic body in 2010 as Tipu Sultan Circle. A poster of Tipu Sultan and a flag have also been placed there recently.

The Tipu Circle in Yadgir which is in the eye of a storm.

However, leaders of the Jai Chhatrapati Shivaji Sene have claimed that the naming of the junction was illegal and demanded that Tipu Sultan’s name be removed from there. They had planned a rally on Monay (February 27) from Gandhi Circle, passing through Hattikuni Circle to reach Tipu Circle where they had planned to stage a protest.