Shani temple News
Sonal debuted with the Mahesh Bhatt film, 'Jannat' alongside Emraan Hashmi in 2008.
A day after Maharashtra's Shani Shingnapur made the headlines over women's entry ban row, a Muslim group has come out in support of the women's entry into the temple.
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.
Backing the campaign by women activists to break gender bias and enter the sacred sanctum of a Shani temple, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Tuesday said the movement is justified.
Shani Shingnapur is globally known as the only village where houses do not have doors and locks, and the village remains theft-free.
BJP MP Hema Malini on Friday said there should not be any gender-based discrimination in temples.
A Shani temple in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district was cleansed ceremonially after a woman entered the temple and offered oil on it, breaking its 400-year-old tradition.
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