"Siddaramaiah has been talking about Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan has been glorified time and again. He was not an Indian. He was an invader. Veer Savarkar died for this country, while Tipu Sultan killed innocent people. We need to counter the comments supporting him," Dr Ashwath Narayan, Karnataka cabinet minister, said when asked whether raking up communal issues is the BJP's strategy in poll-bound Karnataka.