Trupti Desai sets 15-day deadline, threatens to launch protest march

Activist Trupti Desai on Tuesday said if the Trimbakeshwar trust in 15 days does not take a decision to end the 400-year-old tradition of not allowing women into the sanctum sanctorum, Bhumata Brigade supporters will march again towards Trimbakeshwar that too without a prior notice.

"If the Trimbakeshwar trust doesn't take a decision within 15 days, we will go there again without any information. We will also meet Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis this week to urge him to take a decision on this," Desai said.

Desai also hoped that the Government and administration would accept their demand.

Activist Trupti Desai, who was detained in the morning while on her way to Trimbakeshwar temple, has been released by police.

Some of the women activists, who were detained on Monday while heading towards the temple, were also released.

"Why police stopped us from going to Trimbakeshwar temple; it is wrong," said Desai after she was detained.

Desai and her supporters had yesterday vowed to break the age-old rule of not allowing women inside the temple. They have demanded that women should be allowed to enter the inner sanctum of Trimbakeshwar temple on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri.

The temple trust has maintained that the ban on the entry of women is based on tradition, claiming that no objection has ever been raised on the same.