This is an INDIAN issue NOT JUST A Tamizh one. Bull racing and
Jallikattu like events have been held all over India for a millenia. Even now small villages in Punjab, Gujarat, Maharashtra and MP organise localised bull racing events, there's often overlap with bull taming, but not always.
This is is Maharashtra
This in MP
The agenda behind banning
Jallikattu is quite clear here
First was this notification by MoEF when Jairam Ramesh was the minister
This notification was the basis on which SC banned
Jallikattu in 2014.
Then in 2016 MoEf Prakash Javadekar issued another notification partly annulling the 2011 order
The notification was quite reconciliatory and forward looking. Included safe guards
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/592361/govts-2016-notification-had-safeguards.html
Guess what happened?
SC stayed it in 6 days..where were the protectors of
Tamizha identity then?
And then again in 2017. SC chose to ban it .
Do you know who are the SC judges currently looking at the petition to re-examine
Jallikattu ban? Dipak Misra and R Banumathi. Now R Banumathi is the very same judge who unilaterally expanded the scope of an animal rights hearing when she was in Madurai Bench of the Madras High court
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...llikattu-was-banned-first/article17039812.ece
Surprise surprise, the very same Madurai bench of the Madras HC goes on and does this
See the trend? Can one honestly hold up their hand and say that there is not hint of conspiracy?
To me it seems that Central government has done far more in this matter than TN government, even when JJ was the CM..forget about MK and DMK, who are going around shedding croc tears.