In a first, women will be allowed to perform kirtan inside Golden Temple

Ending years of gender discrimination, the Punjab Government has recently passed a resolution unanimously and announced that women will now be allowed to sing hymns in the sanctum sanctorum at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The government, in fact, passed the resolution urging the Akal Takht and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to allow women to sing inside the Harmandir Sahib.

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