Complaint lodged against Smriti Irani in Bihar court over her Sabarimala remark

"Would you take sanitary napkins seeped 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?" Smriti Irani had said.

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New Delhi: Two days after Union Minister Smriti Irani spurred controversy after she made a statement on ongoing dispute over entry of women during menstrual age in Sabrimala temple, a complaint has been filed against her in Bihar’s Sitamarhi court. Speaking on the issue, the Textile Minister had said that “everyone has a right to pray but not desecrate”. Hours later, she tweeted that she made "2 factual statements" and "rest of the propaganda/agenda" was launched using her as a "bait". The complaint was lodged before the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi, Saroj Kumari by advocate Thakur Chandan Singh. Singh has made protesters against entry of women into the shrine as party in the case. Speaking on the issue the Union Minister had asserted that "I am nobody to speak of the Supreme Court verdict because I am a current serving cabinet minister.I believe I have the right to pray but I don't have the right to desecrate. And that is the difference that we need to recognise and respect". She further added saying, “just plain common sense. Would you take sanitary napkins seeped 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?"  Irani’s words came while she was in Mumbai, addressing the Young Thinkers' Conference In a major decision, The Supreme Court last month ended a decades-old ban on women of menstruating age, or between 10 and 50 years, entering the Sabarimala shrine dedicated to Lord Ayyappa.