Sabarimala Temple Row: Smriti Irani Says If We Don’t Take Blood Soaked Pad To Friend’s Home, How Can We Enter God’s Home

Sabarimala temple row is not looking to die down at any cost. The Supreme Court of India has already given a verdict of allowing the women of all ages to enter the Sabarimala temple. However, the devotees of Lord Ayyappa are in no mood to comply with the Apex court verdict.

Not a single a women below the age of 50 was allowed to enter the temple since the time the temple has opened for all 5 days ago. The priests and the devotees protested vehemently making sure that the old tradition is not broken. FYI, women of menstrual age (10-50 years) are not allowed to enter the Sabrimala temple.

A bench of five judges headed by CJI Dipak Misra gave a historic verdict on September 28 allowing women of all ages to enter the temper. However, this decision has not gone down well with everyone. One of such person is Union Minister Smriti Irani, whose latest comment has become quite a controversy.

While speaking at the Young Thinkers conference organized by the British High Commission and the Observer Research Foundation, she said,

“I believe I have a right to pray, but I do not have the right to desecrate. And that is the difference, that we need to recognise and respect. So the difference is.. I am nobody to speak of the Supreme Court verdict, because I am a current serving cabinet minister. But just plain common sense. Would you take sanitary napkins seeped in menstrual blood  and walk into a friend’s home? You would not. Would you think it is respectful to do the same thing and walk into house of God? So that is the difference. I have the right to pray, I do not have the right to desecrate. That is my personal opinion.”

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Many believe that Smriti Irani’s comment was based on the news that said that a female activist is planning to take used pads to the temple. However, the activist has completely denied it.

Smriti Irani took her own example and said, “I am a practicing Hindu married to a Parsi. I ensured that both my children are Zoroastrian, practicing Zoroastrian. They have done their Navjote. And what does practicing Zoroastrain mean? Both these kids can go into a fire temple and pray, be it in Mumbai, Delhi or any part of the world. Now what does that mean for me as a mother? What happens to me irrespective of whether I’m a politician or a minister with Zoroastrian children and a Zoroastrian husband is that I am made to stand outside.”

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