Activist Trupti Desai on Saturday said they have put up a meeting with the authorities of the Shani Shignapur temple. She said they are demanding that women should be allowed to enter the platform of the temple. She added that the temple authorities are dominating on the name of 400-year-old tradition to keep women out of the temple.
06 February,2016 12:51 PM IST
Bhumata brigade activist Trupti Desai was detained by the police in Ahmednagar on Monday while she was leading a group to the Shani Shingnapur temple. Desai is leading a movement to break the gender barrier at the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra
22 February,2016 08:57 PM IST
The Bhumata Brigade supporters, along with their leader Trupti Desai, were again detained by police in Maharashtra's Nandur Shingote as they headed towards the Trimbakeshwar temple in Nashik where women are prohibited.
08 March,2016 11:58 AM IST
Activist Trupti Desai was detained after entered the Trimbakeshwar Temple in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Friday morning. Talking to media, she said they offered prayers at the Trimbakeshwar Temple and prayed that women should be allowed in temple's sanctum.
25 March,2016 01:00 PM IST
Activist Trupti Desai was detained by police outside the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar District. Desai, along with women volunteers of her outfit Bhumata Ranragini Brigade clashed with local villagers and temple trustees who are staunchly opposed to the entry of women inside the holy sanctorum.
02 April,2016 08:19 PM IST
Days after the Shani Shingnapur temple trust authorities opened its doors for women devotees, Bhumata Brigade activist Trupti Desai, along with her supporters, is set to seek entry at the Mahalakshmi temple in Kohlapur.
13 April,2016 05:49 PM IST
Activist Trupti Desai was allegedly thrashed in the Mahalaxmi temple, Kohlapur, as she successfully managed to cross the first threshold of sanctum sanctorum.
14 April,2016 02:13 PM IST
Bhumata Brigade chief Trupti Desai, along with other women activists, on Friday morning offered prayers at the inner sanctum of the Nashik's Trimbakeshwar temple, where the entry of women in the sanctum sanctorum was prohibited for ages.
22 April,2016 12:51 PM IST
Shiv Sena leader Haji Arafat on Saturday said he will not allow women activist Trupti Desai set to enter the iconic Haji Ali Dargah and touch the 'mazar-e-sharif'. Arafat said Islam does not allow women to touch the 'mazar-e-sharif' in the 'dargah'.
24 April,2016 10:53 AM IST
Continuing her fight to eliminate gender inequality at religious places, Bhumata Brigade activists Trupti Desai said that they would carry out a peaceful protest to enter the inner sanctum sanctorum of Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai
28 April,2016 02:22 PM ISTADVERTISEMENT
