‘Don’t give Congress spin in bull law case’

“Reports that appeared in a section of the media said that a lawyer from Congress would oppose the ordinance (in the Supreme Court) is not true. On coming to know of it, TNCC took it up with senior AICC leaders. They said they are with the people of Tamil Nadu,” TNCC president Su Thirunavukkarasar said in response to a query. 

“I can assure everyone that Singhvi will not represent Congress on the issue,” he told reporters after unfurling the tricolour at the party headquarters Satyamurthy Bhavan. Senior advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Anand Grover had mentioned the matter on Wednesday in the Supreme Court on behalf of those opposing jallikattu, which was banned by Apex Court in 2014. The new Tamil Nadu legislation, enacted after popular demand to allow jallikattu during the Pongal festival, was said to be challenged by the Animal Welfare Board of India and rights bodies on Wednesday in the Supreme Court, which is likely to hear the matter on January 30.