Chennai: Union Minister Pon Radhakrishnan on Wednesday hit out at Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi for criticising Centre on the bull taming sport 'jallikattu' issue and charged the Congress with trying to 'destroy' Tamil Nadu's cultural event.

"Those who had worked with the intention of destroying a Tamil cultural event are maligning (our) efforts to revive it," he told reporters in Chennai. Jallikattu was banned by the Environment Ministry in 2011 when UPA was in power at Centre, with the Supreme Court upholding that notification last year.