Shani Shingnapur News

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After successfully breaking age-old traditions at Shani Shingnapur and Trimbakeshwar temples, Bhumata Brigade president Trupti Desai on Thursday tried entering Haji Ali Dargah, but was stopped at main entrance.

 After Shani Shingnapur Temple Trust lifted the 400-year old tradition of restricting women from entering the sanctum sanctorum, the famous Baba Balak Nath Trust in Himachal's Hamirpur district has decided to allow the female devotees in the cave of "Babaji".

Shankaracharya of Dwarka-Sharda Peeth Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati on Wednesday said whenever the head of a state deviates from the path of righteousness, natural disasters like drought become inevitable, days after he said Maharashtra was facing drought because its people worship Sai Baba of Shirdi.

In a historic decision that broke a 400-year-old tradition, the Shani Shingnapur Trust decided to open the chauthara (platform) of the temple to everyone, including women. 

Prominent women from cross-section of society in Maharashtra on Friday hailed the lifting of curb on entry of women in the core area of Shani Shingnapur temple, terming it as a "symbol of victory" for campaign on gender equality and a significant move towards empowerment of women.

The development came just days after the Bombay High Court allowed women's entry into the temple, which was banned earlier.

Empowered by Bombay High Court 's permission that women can enter Maharashtra's Shani Shingnapur Temple, activist Trupti Desai is all set to march towards the historic temple today.

Desai, chief of the Bhumata Brigade, has been leading the protests seeking entry of women to the sanctum sanctorum of the famous Lord Shiva shrine against the ban on female devotees.

A public interest litigation has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging the century-old tradition of prohibiting entry of women inside the core shrine area of Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra.

Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Sunday said there should be no discrimination between men and women trying to enter the Shani Shingnapur temple.

The ongoing row over the entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur Temple at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra is likely to come to an end after both the parties on Saturday agreed to accept the decision of Mahasrashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue. 

In a bid to end the deadlock over allowing women to enter Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra, the District Administration of Ahmednagar called for a meeting on Saturday between protestors and the temple management.

Activist Trupti Desai on Saturday welcomed Bombay High Court's move to issue notice to the Union Government, the Maharashtra Government and the Ahmednagar District administration over the Shani Shingnapur matter.

 In the midst of women demanding access to Shani Shingnapur temple and other sacred places in Maharashtra, Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi on Friday said the matter should be left to the society to decide.

Amid ongoing standoff between women protesters and Shani Shingnapur temple authorities over right to worship inside temple, the Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur 's latest statement is likely to snowball into a massive controversy. 

 Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Wednesday opposes the ban on women from entering the sanctum sactorium at Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra saying his party has always been against any discrimination in public places on the basis of caste, religion and sex.

Whether it is men or women, it is their right to enter any temple, said Mahant Narendra Giri of Akhara Parishad.

Maintaining that women have right to pray, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday favoured a dialogue between authorities of Shani Shingnapur temple and activists to find a way out over the ban on entry of female devotees into the inner sanctum of the shrine.