The interim Chief of Congress party in Kerala, M M Hassan, received flak after he said that mensurating women are ‘impure’ and should stay away from temples. Hassan was addressing a seminar on Media and politics on Monday when he made the controversial statement. ‘Menstruation is impure and women should not enter temples during that period. Menstruation period marks days of impurity,’ M M Hassan said in response to a question on women’s entry into Sabarimala shrine.Hassan was speaking to journalism students when he made the remarks. Many protested his comments deeming them anti-women.
Students even retorted by asking if he thought of blood and organs as impure as well, while another questioned why the blood in his veins is not impure since it came out of mensuration. The Kerala Congress chief, unfazed, stood his ground and claimed that his comments stemmed from cultural observation and were not his own opinions.
