This poster in the squirrel temple
– Photo: Amar Ujala
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Mahant Yogi Kaushalnath of Shri Gilharaj Temple has restricted the entry of Muslim women and men into the temple, as well as issued a separate dress code for Hindu devotees. Mahant has issued a guide line in this regard on Wednesday and in this, it has been said to give entry only to the devotees who come wearing decent and decent clothes in the temple. Its posters were also pasted, which were later removed. Its video is also going viral, on which a debate has started.
Mahant Yogi Kaushalnath has made it clear that only Hindu devotees coming to the temple wearing decent clothes will be given entry. Those coming wearing short clothes, torn jeans, half pants etc. will be barred from worshiping in the temple. However, while removing these posters late in the evening, it has been said that for this, other big posters, banners will be prepared and placed outside the temple. Some people have welcomed this decision while some have termed it as Mahant’s personal decision.
Mahant Yogi Kaushalnath told that it has been decided by the temple committee that non-Hindus coming to the temple will not be allowed to enter for worship. The SIT has been constituted after some Muslims entered Trimbakeshwar temple in the past. Since Muslims do not come to the temple for the purpose of worship and they must have had some purpose or the other. Which only the investigating agencies will be able to decide. No such incident should happen in Aligarh, so it has been decided to ban the entry of Muslims in the temple. He said that there was a complaint from some devotees that some devotees come to the temple wearing unlimited mutilated clothes, jeans pants, half pants etc.
He said that Hindu devotees are requested to follow the dress code in the temple. In response to a question, he said that it was his and the temple committee’s decision to ban Muslims from entering the temple and for Hindus to wear unrestricted clothes. Discussions are being seen and heard across the city regarding this statement of Mahant of Shri Gilharaj Temple. Mahant Yogi Kaushalnath’s statement is becoming very viral on social media as well. Hindu Mahasabha’s national spokesperson Ashok Pandey has welcomed the decision of Mahant of Shri Gilharaj Temple. With this, obscene acts and thefts in the temple can be curbed. This rule is in force in Dasna from a long time ago.
