Union Minister Smriti Irani on Tuesday waded into the Sabarimala issue by asking if it was proper for anybody to desecrate a place of worship to justify the right to pray.

"It is plain common sense... Will you take sanitary napkins soaked in menstrual blood to a friend's home? You will not. Do you think it is respectful to do the same when you enter the house of God?" Irani asked, speaking at an event..