A month after the Supreme Court verdict, activist Trupti Desai along with over 20 women visited Haji Ali dargah to offer prayer on Saturday afternoon.
According to Desai, they offered prayer and seek blessing peacefully.
“We entered the Haji Ali dargah after the victory in the apex court. It was a historic victory for all the women. We had protested so that women are allowed to enter the dargah’s inner sanctum sanctorum without any discrimination.
We are happy to see the success of our protest and the petition filed by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan. There was nobody from the managing trust to meet and talk to us. After Supreme Court’s order, they are, now allowing women. However, we could see that the management is not happy with the decision. The local ladies standing inside the dargah were misbehaving with the women worshipers,” Trupti Desai, who has been demanding the rights of women to enter religious places.
Earlier this week, a group of around 100 women and social activists from Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan entered the inner sanctum of the Haji Ali Dargah on Tuesday. While they were allowed to enter the inner sanctum sanctorum to offer prayer, they were not able to touch the mazar.
After the High Court order to allow the women worshippers inside the inner sanctum on August 26 this year, the dargah trust challenged the order in the Supreme Court. On October 24, Supreme Court passed a judgment allowing women inside the inner sanctum sanctorum of the dargah. In the past till 2011, women were allowed access to the dargah’s inner sanctum sanctorum, but their entry was banned by the dargah management.
Speaking about next step, Desai, said, “As the dargah protest is successful now, next we will be visiting Sabarimala Ayyappa temple in the month of January. We will visit the temple and will be going inside the sanctorum where women are not allowed. According to us, the management should open door of the temple to women of all age groups.”
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