Would you take bloody sanitary napkin to temple? Smriti defends Sabarimala ban

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Union minister Smriti Irani bats for a ban on women to Sabarimala. this is Irani’s bizarre explanation: “I have a right to pray, but not a right to desecrate. I am nobody to speak on the Supreme Court verdict as I’m a serving cabinet minster.  “But 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?” she said.

The Supreme Court Tuesday said that it would hear on November 13 petitions challenging its Sabarimala verdict allowing women of all age groups entry into the temple.  A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul told lawyer Mathews J Nedumpara that it has already passed an order with regard to listing of petitions on November 13. Nedumpara was mentioning the petition filed by National Ayyappa Devotees Association.

Earlier the court had noted that there were 19 review petitions pending in the matter, filed by the Association and others seeking a review of its Sabarimala verdict.  A five-judge constitution bench by a ratio of 4:1 had held that women of all age groups should be allowed entry into Kerala’s Sabarimala Temple. The court had on October 9 declined an urgent hearing on Nedumpara’s plea which had contended that the five-judge Constitution bench verdict lifting the ban was “absolutely untenable and irrational”.