SUPPORT JALLIKATTU BULLS SPECIAL PUJA HELD FOR REKLA RACE IN TAMILNADU

SUPPORT JALLIKATTU BULLS SPECIAL PUJA HELD FOR REKLA RACE IN TAMILNADU 

 A special puja was held in Ponnapuram Shivan

temple, near

Dharapuram Rekla bulls. About 140 bulls and two thousand people, including about 250 sportsmen and rekla bull support staff, – not counting the thousands of cheering onlookers -participated in the event.

The event took place on the pollachi-Charapuram road. The event started off with a two hour rally by the seventy rekla carts. Thousands of people gathered all along the route to cheer the rekla bulls on. The local people threw open their farms and provided fodder and water for the bulls and also provided refreshments to the sportsmen.
A ‘Gau Puja’ was held at the Shivan Temple followed by puja for the bulls. The bulls were sent to relax in a nearby coconut plantation to relax before starting off on their return journey. The return journey also turned into a procession where all the bulls were cheered on by an even larger crowd that had gathered on the roads.

Special prayers were offered to Shiva praying that Jallikattu, Rekla and such events be allowed soon.
We hope more and more such events would be conducted all over Tamilnadu and the rest of India.
We will never give up the fight to reinstate Jallikattu, Bailgada and Rekla to its glory days again!