"FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2018 file photo, Mohan Bhagwat, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a hardline Hindu group that created the Bharatiya Janata Party as its political arm, addresses a public rally in Gauhati, India. India's ruling party and the main opposition are both supporting a protest to keep females of menstruating age from entering one of the world's largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, in what some political observers say is a bid to shore up votes ahead of next year's general election. Bhagwat has sided with the protesters, saying the ""faith of millions of devotees was not taken into account,"" during a Hindu festival in New Delhi on Thursday, Oct. 18, referring to a Supreme Court ruling that opened  the temple up to women of all ages for the first time in centuries. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)"
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