{"id":36264,"date":"2017-02-13T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36264"},"modified":"2017-02-13T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T11:51:39","slug":"karnatakas-jallikattu-assembly-passes-bill-legalise-kambala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=36264","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka&#039;s Jallikattu: Assembly passes bill to legalise Kambala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka Assembly has passed an amendment bill to legalise Kambala, the traditional bull-racing sport in the state.<br \/>\nThe bill amended the provisions in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill, 1960, vis-a-vis Karnataka and the sport of Kambala.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/people\/siddaramaiah\/17956.html\">Siddaramaiah<\/a>-led state government had tabled the bill in the Assembly on Friday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<p>On earlier occasions, the Opposition had vowed to support the Kambala Bill. &#8220;If they bring the Kambala Bill, we will definitely support it,&#8221; Jagadish Shettar, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, had said.<br \/>\n<b>CLAMOUR FOR KAMBALA<\/b><br \/>\nThe clamour for Kambala had intensified after neighbouring state Tamil Nadu passed a bill legalising Jallikattu, the bull-taming sport.<br \/>\nSeveral protests and processions were taken out with buffaloes to put pressure on the Karnataka government to move a similar ordinance.<br \/>\nThe Karnataka High Court had stayed the conduct of Kambala in November 2016 on a petition filed by <a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/animal-rights-activists-kambala-karnataka\/1\/868049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">animal rights activists<\/a> .<br \/>\nHowever, the government of Karnataka, not wanting a Marina beach-like situation in the state, immediately resolved to move an amendment in the forthcoming assembly session.<br \/>\nOn January 30, the high court allowed the interim ban on the sport to stay and said it would wait for the Supreme Court&#8217;s verdict on Jallikattu before taking a decision on Kambala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Karnataka Assembly has passed an amendment bill to legalise Kambala, the traditional bull-racing sport in the state. The bill amended the provisions in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Bill, 1960, vis-a-vis Karnataka and the sport of Kambala. The Siddaramaiah-led state government had tabled the bill in the Assembly on Friday. On earlier occasions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}