Daijiworld News Network - Mangalore (GA) – pic - Dayanand Kukkaje

Mangalore, Sep 25: "It is not correct to impose ban on women from entering temples or any other places of worship.  Woman is the beginning of life.  She is considered to be a strong power.  She has been worshipped even as goddess. Then why this partiality between men folk and womanhood," questioned former president of KPCC, B Janardhan Poojary.

He was speaking after laying foundation stone to Shri Mahavishnu Shesha Shayana bhajana mandira, bhajana mantapa and hall to be built by Mahajana Sabha Bengre at Thota village on Sunday September 24.

Expressing his views about the ban imposed on women from entering Sabarimala Temple in Kerala he said that Lord Subrahmanya is the son of goddess Parvati.  She is a woman.  God has not imposed any ban on women from entering any place of worship.  It is purely the handiwork of human beings," he said.

Noted leader of fisheries community G Shankar from Udupi presided over the function. Gangadhar Suvarna, president of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Cooperative Fisheries Federation Y Gangadhaar Suvarna, well-known businessman Kishor D Shetty, corporators M Farooq and Surendra Pangal, Udupi ZP former president Keshav Kundar and Mumbai based entrepreneur Purushottam J Karkera were the chief guests on the occasion.