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What I want to know is how they tell the monkeys from the MPs...


New Delhi's big macaque attack: India's MPs demand protection from marauding monkeys

(Globe and Mail) Agence France-Presse and Associated Press May 17, 2007

NEW DELHI -- Indian MPs demanded protection yesterday from hordes of monkeys that have invaded the parliament building, ministries and departments in the national capital.

Opposition parliamentarian K. Malaisamy said the creatures were creating havoc in the heart of New Delhi.

"Monkeys come in battalions, break cables, mock at passersby and harass them and even decamp with belongings of children from playgrounds," he said as other MPs in Parliament's upper house joined the emotionally charged debate.

"In the name of environmental protection, we cannot afford to remain silent spectators to this monkey menace in South Avenue, where several government offices and flats of MPs are located," Mr. Malaisamy said.

"The monkeys are even invading kitchens in MPs' apartments," shouted Ramdeo Bhandary of the regional RJD party, which backs India's ruling Congress government.

Parliamentarians from various groupings urged Environment Minister T. Baalu to capture the monkeys, which roam free in ministry lobbies and often break into the fortified office of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

As forest cover around New Delhi has declined, the city has struggled with a growing monkey population. Government buildings, temples and many residential neighbourhoods are overrun by hundreds of rhesus macaques.

Last year, the Delhi High Court reprimanded authorities in the Indian capital for failing to stop monkeys from terrifying residents and asked them to find a permanent solution to the monkey menace.

Part of the problem is that devout Hindus believe monkeys are manifestations of the monkey god Hanuman and feed them with bananas and peanuts, which encourages them to frequent public places.

The Defence Ministry, meanwhile, has recruited bands of ferocious langur monkeys trained to attack the smaller breed of simians inside military facilities in New Delhi, but with limited success. [!!!!]

Yesterday's parliamentary debate coincided with court orders to transport captured monkeys from New Delhi to a nearby wildlife sanctuary. And while MPs wanted action, the Delhi High Court warned the New Delhi administration to avoid scandals in transporting captured monkeys to a nearby sanctuary.

"The same set of monkeys may be caught and transported several times on record for making the process a money-making business," judges Tirath Singh Thakur and S. N. Aggarwal told the city government in an order.

Several city residential districts petitioned the court in 2001 to initiate steps to make New Delhi "monkey-free."

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Baalu to capture the monkeys, which roam free in ministry lobbies and often break into the fortified office of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Next they'll be saying that they pose a terrorist threat. Suicide Monkeys anyone?