Vizagapatinam sources have stated that when defying orders of the Hyderabad High Court and Apex Court on banning cockfights, Vizagapatinam and many parts of North Andhra continued conducting cockfights unabated with crores spent on gambling.
Meanwhile unmindful of the consequences, MLA, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Babu (TD) and few other political leaders and industrialists participated in cockfights at Ramakrishnapuram area under Arilova police station limits in Vizag on Monday. Further sources said that cockfights will continue in Vizag till January 16, until the conclusion of Sankranti.
Meanwhile when expressing displeasure over Vizag organizing cockfights,
senior YSRC leader Peethala Murthy Yadav said that despite the directives of
the courts and police, some TD leaders including MLA Ramakrishna Babu and organizers
and punters are conducting cockfights citing that it is not a crime but a
tradition.
