Union Minister's Bizarre Statement On Menstruating Women At Sabarimala Draws Flak

The controversy over women of all ages entering the revered Sabarimala Temple is far from over. The latest to join in the debate is Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani. Irani has invited the wrath of various people after she made a supposedly insensitive remark over the issue.

The Union Minister, while addressing the issue and the Supreme Court verdict, said that everyone has the right to pray, but not to desecrate.

"I am nobody to comment on the Supreme Court verdict but I believe I have the right to pray, but not the right to desecrate," Irani said at an event in Mumbai.

"Would you take sanitary napkins steeped in menstrual blood and walk into a friend's home? You could not. And would you think it is respectable to do the same thing when you are walking into the house of God? So that is the difference," said the minister.

Irani's statement did not go down well with the people, and users on Twitter were quick to slam her. Here are some reactions