Will you take sanitary napkins soaked in blood to a friend’s home: Smriti Irani on Sabarimala row

Amid the ongoing protests over women’s entry in SabrimalaTemple, Union Minister Smriti Irani has said that while everyone has “the right to pray, but not to desecrate.” “It is plain common sense. Would you take sanitary napkins soaked in menstrual blood into a friend’s home? So why would you take them into the house of God,” Irani said at an event in Mumbai on Tuesday. She also added that as cabinet minister she cannot openly comment on the Supreme Court’s verdict that allowed women of all ages inside the Sabarimala premises.
The shrine that opened on October 17 – first time after the Supreme Court lifted age restrictions on entry of women —  closed on October 22 amid massive protests without a single woman of the previously banned age entering the premises. More than a dozen women in the 10-50 age groups were stopped by protesters whenever they attempted to visit the temple.

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