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RSS revisits its stand on Sabarimala issue
Anand Mishra
DHNS
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RSS seems to have revisited its stand on entry for women in temples and asked spiritual and community leaders to analyse and address the issue
RSS seems to have revisited its stand on entry for women in temples and asked spiritual and community leaders to analyse and address the issue

The RSS statement on Wednesday is at variance with its stand taken in 2016 during the annual meeting of the Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha in Nagaur near Jodhpur, Joshi had said that unfair traditions have banned women in many temples and called for change in mindset through discussion.

Those remarks were made at the height of the row over the ban on the entry of women into the sanctum sanctorum of Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik when Bhumata Ranragini Brigade chief Trupti Desai and others were detained while they tried to enter the sanctum sanctorum.

Way back in 2006 as well, RSS had lent its weight behind the demand for opening up the Sabarimala shrine to any woman, who wanted to visit the temple. P Parameswaran, the then director of the Thiruvananthapuram-based RSS think-tank Bharatiya Vichara Kendram, had strongly backed the demand.

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(Published 03 October 2018, 22:14 IST)