"This is a huge victory," said Trupti Desai, head of the Bhumata Ranragini Brigade, who led months of protests against the discriminatory tradition of the Shani temple in Ahmednagar.
"We have always said that this was a fight for gender equality," Desai told Times Now shortly after the ban was lifted today.
Women started offering prayers at the Shani Shinganapur temple on Friday afternoon.
Breaking a 400-year-old discriminatory tradition, women on Friday entered the sanctum sanctorum of the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra and offered prayers
The temple trust's decision came following a Bombay high court order on April 1 which said that it is women's fundamental right to go into places of worship and the government is duty-bound to protect it.
The Maharashtra government had made its stand clear in the court and had said that it will not allow any discrimination between men and women devotees.
Sayaram Bankar, a trustee of Shani Shingnapur temple, said the trustees held a meeting on Friday and decided to facilitate unrestricted entry to all devotees including men and women, in keeping with the high court directive.
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