MK Stalin warns of regime change over bull run ban
Stalin said the board itself should be dissolved and the new board should have a member from Tamil Nadu.
CHENNAI: Even as the AIADMK government is bracing up to preempt attempts to defy the jallikattu ban, DMK working president M.K. Stalin who led a protest for jallikattu on Friday warned that similar protests by students and youth in 1965 resulted in regime change.
Citing reports that police are threatening bull owners in Madurai against participating in jallikattu, he said people would not forgive the state and central governments if they failed to bring an ordinance and hold the traditional sport. He also flayed the AIADMK MPs for not raising the jallikattu issue in Parlia-ment.
The Modi government had promulgated 22 ordinances till now, he said and asked why an ordinance could not be issued to save the culture of Tamils. When the Supreme Court directed the Centre to form the Cauvery Management Board, the centre did not accept the court verdict and filed an affidavit to change the judgment, he pointed out and added that an ordinance could be issued in a single day.
He also came down heavily on demand by members of Animal Welfare Board to dissolve the AIADMK government and said only a political party could make such demands. Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam should explain how the members of a board are emboldened to make demands to dismiss a state government.
Stalin said the board itself should be dissolved and the new board should have a member from Tamil Nadu. When the centre could dissolve the Planning Commission itself, he asked why it could not dissolve the Animal Welfare Board.
Addressing the protesters, Stalin hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi charging him with refusing to meet Tamil Nadu MPs on the jallikattu issue while giving appointments to meet actors." If the MPs had gone to the PMO without appointment, why is he not giving them appointments on some other day?", he asked. When a Prime Minister is refusing to meet 50 MPs, why they could not threaten him, he asked.
Accusing Modi of not giving appointments for DMK MPs who wanted to meet him on jallikattu issue, Stalin said the Prime Minister had met actors Gautami, Prabhas, Sonali, Nagarjuna, Salman Khan, Amir Khan, RajInikanth, Vijay, Kajol and Karina Kapoor. Clarifying that he was not criticising the actors, Stalin asked why the Prime Minister who was allocating time to meet them did not give time for Tamil Nadu MPs when they went to meet him on a cultural issue like jallikattu.
