An unprecedented crowd gathered at Avaniyapuram near Madurai to greet former Congress president Rahul Gandhi who paid a day’s visit to the State on Thursday to witness the traditional bull taming sport of Jallikattu.
Addressing the thousands who had turned up to welcome him, Rahul Gandhi said that watching the taming of bulls was like ‘experiencing Tamil culture and history in action.’
The Congress in its election manifestos in 2009 and 2014 had assured the people that if voted back to power, the party would ban once and for ever the jallikattu sports.
While on his way back to the airport, Rahul Gandhi told media persons that he would continue to stand by the farmers of the country who are agitating against the Farm Bills. He lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his indifference to the woes of the farmers.