“Ennandri kondrarkum uyivvundam uyivvillai
Seinandri kondra magarku”
is a famous couplet from Tirukkural depicting the importance of remembering those who helped us in testing times. Thiruvalluvar terms the ungrateful as sinners and that their sins can never be forgotten.

Madurai: As a testimony to the couplet, the organising committee of the Avaniyapuram Jallikattu has invited the student protesters to an event as Chief Guests. The event is to be held in Avaniyapuram on 5th February as part of celebrating the revoke of the ban on Jallikattu with the State Government passing an amendment supporting it.

In the invitation printed by the organising committee, the committee has listed the students among other Chief Guests who are to participate in the event.

Madurai District Collector K. Veera Raghav Rao, Corporation Commissioner Sandeep Nanduri, Madurai City Commissioner of Police Shailesh Kumar Yadav, T. Radhakrishnan, Member of Parliament from Virudhunagar Constituency and other politicians have been listed among guests in the invitation printed by the committee.

S. Raja, one of the organising committee members told Covai Post that the people of the area even wished that the students who participated in the protests to open the Vadivasal for the event.

“We are eternally thankful for the students who have made this possible. It is their relentless fight that has opened the Vadivasal”, he said.

Notably, the Alanganallur Jallikattu Committee has announced that the foreign tourists’ gallery will be opened exclusively for the students during the event that is to be held on February 2nd.