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A tamer being charged menacingly by a bull astatine the jallikattu successful Alanganallur connected Saturday. | Photo Credit: G. MOORTHY
Alanganallur jallikattu, the past of the large jallikattu events held during the Pongal play successful Madurai district, connected Saturday passed disconnected mostly incident-free barring insignificant injuries to astir 60 radical that included bull tamers, spectators and constabulary personnel.
A fewer bulls were besides injured during the event. Chief Minister M.K. Stalin attended the event. He presented golden rings and golden coins to the bull tamers and bull owners.
The lawsuit began astatine astir 7 a.m. with Minister for Commercial Taxes and Registration P. Moorthy flagging disconnected the jallikattu successful the beingness of Madurai Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, Madurai Superintendent of Police B.K. Arvind, Sholavandan MLA A. Venkatesan and others.
As galore arsenic 1,002 bulls and 497 bull tamers participated successful the 11 rounds of the jallikattu lawsuit that concluded astatine astir 7 p.m.. The participants underwent aesculapian checkups and the bulls underwent fittingness tests to instrumentality portion successful the event.
Karthi of Karuppayurani was adjudged the champion bull tamer. He won the archetypal prize, a car, for taming 19 bulls. Abi Sithar of Poovanthi was adjudged the 2nd champion bull tamer for taming 17 bulls. He received a motorcycle. Sridhar of Pasingapuram, the 3rd champion bull tamer, received an e-motorcycle. He tamed 11 bulls.
The bull belonging to AVM Babu of Pudukkottai district, was adjudged the champion bull. The bull proprietor received a tractor arsenic archetypal prize. The bull belonging to Tamil Selvan besides from Pudukkottai territory was adjudged the 2nd champion bull and the bull proprietor received a motorcycle. The bull belonging to Kennedy of Madurai territory was adjudged the 3rd champion bull. An e-motorcycle was fixed to the bull owner. Other gifts fixed to the winners and participants astatine the lawsuit included golden coins, metallic coins and household items.
People from acold and adjacent started pouring into the jallikattu venue astatine Alanganallur arsenic aboriginal arsenic 5 a.m., hoping to get the champion spot successful the galleries to witnesser the event. People were besides perched connected rooftops successful bid to ticker the bull-taming event. Tourists from different States and adjacent foreigners made a beeline for the jallikattu venue to person a full caller experience.
