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Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s MP son Shrikant Shinde has courted controversy after he was allowed entry into the sanctum sanctorum of the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain despite a ban, prompting the authorities to order a probe.
According to PTI, The opposition Congress took a strong objection, saying while common citizens have to wait in queues for hours to take ‘darshan’ of the deity, VIPs were allowed entry into the sanctum sanctorum despite a ban.
Shinde, who represents the Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency in Maharashtra’s Thane district, entered the ‘garbha griha’ (sanctum sanctorum) along with his wife and two others to worship the deity on Thursday evening, the temple sources said.
However, a controversy erupted over it as soon as a video of the incident went viral since entry of devotees into the sanctum sanctorum has been banned for nearly a year, they said.
