Animals are not for entertainment", warns PETA India

Out of concern for elephants and after a series of recent incidents in which upset captive elephants turned violent and lashed out killing and hurting people, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has offered the organisers of upcoming Bonalu and Muharram events in Secunderbad and Hyderabad innovative lifelike mechanical elephants to use in place of real elephants.

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PETA India has written letters to S. Venkata Rao, Director of Endowments Department of Telangana, which organises the Bonalu festival and to Azmet Jah, Chairman, HEH The Nizam's Religious Trust; Mirza Riyaz-ul-Hasan Effendi, Member of Telangana Legislative Council and Syed Azmatullah Huseini, Chairman, Telangana State Waqf Board, who organise the Muharram events offering a life-size mechanical elephant and pointed out that the use of a mechanical elephant will safeguard animal welfare and protect humans from potential harm by an upset elephant.PETA India also wrote to the Director of Project Elephant and the Chief Wildlife Wardens of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, K