Jallikattu - A political misadventure :
Opinion 14/01/2017. 968. All Members, Respected family members of this great holy Nation. Sub : A political misadventure : Ref : Jallikattu : - Media reports - The Hindu A. 1. Political opportunism in an election year often takes the form of dubious actions by the executive, and inevitably runs into a judicial barrier. 2. By staying the Union government’s < recent notification aimed at permitting jallikattu, the popular bull-taming sport in Tamil Nadu, along with bullock cart races in some other States, the Supreme Court > has stopped the Centre’s needless misadventure in its tracks. 3. The festivities associated with the harvest festival of Pongal in Tamil Nadu < went off without jallikattu in 2015 after the > Supreme Court’s May 2014 judgment prohibiting the sport on the ground that it perpetrates cruelty on animals and endangers the lives of th...