Continuing their protest over the ban on bull-taming sport jallikattu for the second day, around 2,000 people from Alanganallur, a popular venue for the event, on Monday picketed the District Collectorate. They also tried to surrender their voter identification cards, police said.
The irate villagers, including women, gathered at the sprawling Thamukkam grounds here and marched to the Collectorate, where they shouted slogans demanding steps for conduct of the traditional sport and condemning animal rights group PETA, which has been opposing it. When they sought to surrender their voter ID cards, District Collector L Subramanian, who addressed them, pacified them and said efforts were on to remove the legal hurdles in the way of conducting jallikattu.
The protesters dispersed after the Collector’s intervention.
Today’s protest was held as part of agitations announced by the villagers, bull owners and tamers after the Supreme Court, hearing petitions by PETA and others, last week stayed a recent central government notification allowing conduct of jallikattu.