Speaking on the Sabarimala temple row, Union Minister Smriti Irani said, "Would you take sanitary napkins steeped in menstrual blood and walk into a friend's home? You would not." "And would you think it's respectful to do the same when you walk into the house of God...I have a right to pray, I don't have right to desecrate," she added.

Arshiya Chopra / 10:18 pm on short byon