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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
AIADMK general secretary V K Sasikala on January 20 reviewed the situation relating to Jallikattu with party leaders, and instructed
CM O Panneerselvam and senior party leaders to make arrangements for holding the Jallikattu at the earliest in accordance with the
wishes of the people. The stage is set for an early Jallikattu event at Vaadivaasal.
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Friday, January 20, 2017,
Chennai
DMK working president M K Stalin led thousands of DMK workers in a Rail Roko agitation to protest the ban on Jallikattu and
demanding that the sport be held. Stalin and several thousand DMK leaders and workers were arrested in various parts of Tamil
Nadu.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
Chennai
Music meastro A R Rahman has said that he would undertake a fast in Chennai on January 20 to press the demand for lifting the ban on Jallikattu. The South Indian Film Artistes Association (Nadigar Sangam) also said its members would observe a fast on January 20 to press the demand.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled out issuing an ordinance to enable holding of Jallikattu. When Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam raised the issue of the Jallikattu ban, and urged the Centre to issue an ordinance to allow the bull-fight, the Prime Minister is understood to have told the CM that the matter was sub judice and therefore there was no way the Centre could issue an ordinance at this juncture.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017,
New Delhi
Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam, after a morning meeting with PM Modi, said the State and the Central governments would soon take steps to ensure that Jallikattu was conducted.
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Thursday, January 12, 2017,
New Delhi
The Supreme Court on January 12 dismissed a plea to lift the ban on the bull-taming sport of Jallikattu, a day after the AIADMK and the Tamil Nadu chief minister O Panneerselvam urged the Centre to issue an ordinance to allow the sport, removing bulls from the list of animals prohibited from being exhibited or trained as performing animals.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016,
New Delhi
The Supreme Court today stayed Centre's decison that allowed Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu. The development comes days after the Centre gave its nod to the bull fighting sport.
