Bengaluru: Jayamala supports SC verdict on women's entry into Sabarimala


Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Jul 19: Karnataka minister for women and child development, Jayamala, came out openly in support of the Supreme Court (SC) observation that women have the constitutional right to enter and pray at temples and they need not depend on laws for the same.

The Supreme Court bench, which has been hearing a batch of petitions filed by various individuals and organizations questioning the validity of ban imposed by Sabarimala temple management against entry of women aged between 10 and 50 into the temple premises, had made the above observations. Jayamala said on Wednesday that under the constitution, no difference can be made between men and women. Speaking to media persons here, she said that there cannot be different temples for men and women.

The minister expressed her firm belief that giving preference in offering of prayers to one sex over the other is totally wrong. She confessed that she has been an ardent devotee of Lord Ayyappa, the presiding deity at Sabarimala.

It may be recalled that after a divine astrological query over the Sabarimala temple's sanctity was organized several years back, the astrologers, among other things, had said that a female devotee had entered Sabarimala premises, which had interfered with the sanctity of the temple. Jayamala had then claimed that she was the one who had entered the temple in 1986. After she made this statement, Kerala police had, in 2010, filed chargesheet against her for violating religious traditions.

Jayamala expressed the feeling that everyone is the child of the God and no rules or strictures can wedge a divide between the two.

 

  

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    All Men & Women are Equal in the eyes of God ...

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  • FATHIMA, bajpe

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    now people will call me FAKE...but i will be really happy if i get entry to my prayer house...

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  • Harold D'cunha, Mangalore, India.

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    FATHIMA, bajpe

    You have expressed your rightful demand. if God has created the Universe, and he had created man and woman, who are equal, then even at the place of worship, the woman should have the same right of man and vice versa.

    You have mentioned, " t i will be really happy if i get entry to my prayer house...". This is your right and no man can take it out. For woman, nothing comes so easily, as it is dominated by men.

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  • gm, mlur

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    You have separate prayer places in mosques, so how can you claim that you can't enter the prayer places? As you said you are a fake.

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  • Harold D'cunha, Mangalore, India.

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    gm, mlur
    Fake or not fake, women should have equal right, same like man, in society, place of worship. We live in a men dominated society, where in most of the cases the women are oppressed, suppressed, exploited and used by men. Time for the women to fight for their right.

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  • Lionel Dsouza, Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    WHATS THE USE.....YOU ANY HOW CAN NOT ENTER...….

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  • pooki, mangaluru

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    why she cannot enter?

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  • Lionel Dsouza, Mangalore

    Thu, Jul 19 2018

    YOU HAVE TO CLIMB THE STEPS WHICH ARE ALSO CALLED "STEPS OF HEAVEN" ...DO YOU THINK SHE CAN CLIMB THEM....

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