A meeting was called by the district collector to end the deadlock over allowing women to enter Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra. the meeting was called by the district collector between protestors and the temple management.
Bhumata Brigade, Shani Shingnapur Temple Trust and Ahmednagar district administration were present at the meeting. Trupti Desai, who is spearheading the agitation, has said that she will apprise the Maharashtra Chief Minister of the outcome of the meeting.
The agitation has been going on demanding an end to a centuries-old ban on female devotees into the sanctum sanctorum of the temple. Women members and supporters of the Bhumata Brigade arrived from Pune on January 29 in six buses with an aim to enter the temple's sanctorum where the idol of Lord Shani is placed on an open-air platform.
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