A woman journalist being asked to shift from the front row reserved for media to make way for monks at a function to felicitate Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has triggered a controversy with a Shiv Sena leader demanding an apology from the event organisers. Rashmi Puranik, working as a reporter with a Marathi news channel, was among the first to reach the venue yesterday where Fadnavis was felicitated for banning cow slaughter in the state. She occupied a seat in the front row reserved for journalists. However, she was asked to shift behind in the area allocated for women. Puranik said she was told that women do not occupy front seats in presence of monks, so she had to move behind. “I argued that this was not a religious function and I was occupying the seat reserved for media,” she said. However, Bachchubhai Shah, of Sri Santacruz Jain Tapagaccha Sangh, which organised the event, said there was no discrimination among castes or men and women in Jainism.

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