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Annamalai Slams MK Stalin For Peddling Lies On Jallikattu

January 24, 2024
The Commune

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin inaugurated the recently constructed Kalaignar Centenary Jallikattu Arena in Keelakarai, Alanganallur, Madurai district. A total of 500 bulls and 200 bull tamers are participating in the event, with arrangements made for up to 5000 spectators. The Tamil Nadu government is set to award the best bull and the tamers with a Mahendra Thar car and ₹1 lakh in cash. The second prize-winning bull and player will receive a bike along with Rs 50,000 in cash each.

There was already a controversy surrounding the naming of the new Jallikattu stadium after former Chief Minister Karunanidhi, and during the inauguration speech, Stalin appeared to shift the blame towards the previous ADMK government for the ban on Jallikattu. 

When addressing the spectators in the arena, he said, “In 2014 there was a situation where jallikattu could not be held. Our youth came together to the extent that it can be called the Marina Tamilian Revolution. In 2017, the biggest people’s protest was held at the Marina beach in Chennai beach. The then ADMK government incited violence against those who protested peacefully, dispersed the crowd, put them in auto and set them on fire. All such horrible scenes were published.”

Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party President Annamalai strongly responded to Stalin’s false statements expressing firm disagreement. He took to his official X handle and wrote, “Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin’s full-time duty is to tell lies. Last time when he was in the ruling party, he signed whatever was handed to him and apologized for unknowingly signing the order to extract methane from the delta region, now he has a habit of reading whatever is written on the piece of paper and leaving it as it is. Assuming people would have forgotten that it was the parasitic model DMK that banned jallikattu competitions in Tamil Nadu, he has unleashed new hoaxes. 

It was during the DMK-Congress coalition government on 11 July 2011, Mr. Jairam Ramesh of the Congress, who was the Environment Minister, notified a ban on Jallikattu. The DMK, which was getting sticky central ministerial posts and doing corruption as its full-time job, had no time to raise its voice against it. 

In January 2016, the Central Government led by our honorable Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi passed a gazette notification allowing the jallikattu competitions which had been banned by the DMK-Congress coalition government, but the Supreme Court stayed the notification and extended the ban on jallikattu.

Immediately, the Hon’ble Union Minister Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman instructed the Tamil Nadu Government to enact an ordinance to hold Jallikattu. Accordingly, in January 2017, after much persuasion and deliberation, the then Tamil Nadu government passed an ordinance. 

In the case against this, last December 2022, in support of jallikattu, the Solicitor General Mr. Tushar Mehta, who appeared on behalf of the central government, said that the emergency ordinance allowing jallikattu has been passed with all the necessary documents and features for the approval of the President. 

Accordingly, the ban on jallikattu competitions was lifted and the Supreme Court allowed permission to hold jallikattu, but the parasitic model DMK has nothing to do with it. DMK can be proud that the BJP was able to lift the ban on Jallikattu because the DMK alliance banned it. 

Let it be the Cauvery issue, let it be the Khachathivu issue, let it be the Jallikattu ban. The position has always been more important to DMK than Tamil heritage, and the welfare of Tamils. DMK is the origin of all the problems faced by the Tamil people. How many more years will this Gopalapuram family lie and deceive people for their family’s hunger for power?

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