Pawan Kalyan Comes in Support to Jallikattu

January 20, 2017 17:08
Pawan Kalyan Comes in Support to Jallikattu

Telugu film star and Jana Sena party chief K Pawan Kalyan came out to support of Jallikattu and cockfights on Friday. He said "the ban on these two was an attack on Dravidian culture and integrity" and need to draw a for moralistic madness".

"I have deep respect and reverence for our culture, animals and mother nature. Looking at the cows and roosters in my farm made me think about the ban on Jallikattu and kodipandem (cock fights) in Dakshin Bharath," he said in a series of tweets on the issue today.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

"Somewhere, we have to draw a line for this 'moralistic madness' in our society. Otherwise it would be very difficult to keep our nation's integrity intact. Jana Sena urges the Central government to lift the ban on Jallikattu and Kodipandem," the actor said.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

"Ban on Jallikattu and Kodipandem is an attack on Dravida culture and its integrity. This is how it is being viewed in Dakshin Hindustan. I had observed this deep hurt in people of Dakshin Bharat while I was shooting in Pollachi (Tamil Nadu) and during my political interaction in Andhra about the ban on their respective cultural events in recent times," Kalyan said.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

"Government of India cited 'animal cruelty' as the reason for the ban in Jallikattu and kodipandem. If we truly consider this puritanical approach, then we have to examine the statistics of Indian beef export and poultry industry," he said and reeled out statistics.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

"Brazil and Australia could export only 2 and 1.5 million tonnes respectively. And, beef export fetches almost $5 billion with 14 per cent growth rate every year. Interestingly, these top beef exporting firms are owned by Hindus and not Muslims," the film star claimed.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

Pawan Kalyan also questioned why the Animal Cruelty Act is applied only to Jallikattu whereas the animals which are getting injured or killed are more.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

"Kodipandem is the cultural identity of Andhras. If the Central government is serious about enforcing Animal Cruelty Act, then it should ban poultry industry also, which produces around 8.4 lakh tonnes of poultry meat by killing millions of chicken," Kalyan said.

Pawan Kalyan Jallikattu Tweets

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BY M. DIVYA SRI

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