Jan 4,2019
BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi launched a scathing attack on Kerala’s Left government and the activists who are pushing to normalise the entry of women at the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. She accused the Kerala government of intentionally provoking members of a particular community.
“This conversation and this narrative is coming from people who neither understand Hinduism nor do they know the practices of rituals. From Kamakhya to Chengaloor, the Goddess is worshipped as rajaswala, in the menstruating form. That is what Hinduism is. So, we have space for everything,” Lekhi said in the Lok Sabha on Friday as part of a discussion on matters of urgent public interest.
“We agree to the extent that rituals of a particular sect need to be kept in that form… Ritualistic practices practiced by certain religious groups need to be left alone. And this is what tolerance is all about,” she added.
Lekhi accused the Kerala government for “refusing to maintain law and order”, and said it was acting specifically to provoke Hindus. She said the Kerala government “is acting in a manner where it transports two women in an ambulance and surreptitiously takes them as a transgender.”
Source :DNA india
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