Jallikattu protests continue in Tamil Nadu, thousands gather at Marina beach; Pannerselvam to meet PM Modi today
Thursday, January 19, 2017 IST
Jallikattu protests continue in Tamil Nadu, thousands gather at Marina beach; Pannerselvam to meet PM Modi today
New Delhi/Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O Pannerselvam will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday to urge him to pass a law on Jallikattu.
In the interim, the southern state is encountering a kind of 'Middle Easterner Spring' as a huge number of youth are reviving at the Marina shoreline for the third day and were good to go to proceed with their challenge in support of Jallikattu, the bull-restraining sport restricted by the Supreme Court.
The Marina has transformed into an ocean of humankind as a few thousand young fellows and ladies requested not just a conclusion to the prohibition on Jallikattu additionally a restriction on People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, which contradicts the game.
In the midst of seething dissents looking for the gesture for holding Jallikattu, AIADMK general secretary VK Sasikala said party MPs would clarify the "enthusiastic tumults" in Tamil Nadu and the requirement for the Center to get a law to lift the prohibition on directing the game.
In a discharge, she said the gathering board of MPs will approach both the President and the Prime Minister.
Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly and DMK working president MK Stalin proposed that Panneerselvam ought to bring with him agents of all political gatherings and challenging youth when he meets Modi.
"In the event that Chief Minister O Panneerselvam meets Prime Minister Modi alongside all gathering delegates and dissenting youth, it would add more quality to our interest to permit holding Jallikattu," he said in an announcement here.
The Supreme Court in May 2014 prohibited Jallikattu, saying that bulls can't be utilized as performing creatures either for Jallikattu occasions or for bullock-truck races.
From that point forward, individuals have been asking the focal government to find a way to permit the game.
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