Thiruvananthapuram, Jul 12 (PTI): Activists of a Left students union in Kerala today posted sanitary napkins to union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley as a mark of protest for imposing GST on women's hygiene product.

Students Federation of India (SFI), the students outfit of ruling CPI(M) sent the napkins with the slogan 'Bleed without fear, Bleed without tax' written on them.

The hygiene products were sent as part of a protest programme organised by the outfit in various college campuses across the state against the taxation on sanitary pads.

SFI central committee member Khadeejath Suhaila inaugurated the protest event here.

Various state and district level leaders took part in the protest organised in other parts of the state.

Sanitary napkins will attract Goods and Services Tax (GST) rate of 12 per cent, a shade lower than 13.7 per cent in the previous indirect tax regime

GST on sanitary products prompts protest over taxation of women's hygiene products and calls for tax policy reconsideration Imposition of the Goods and Services Tax on sanitary napkins at a 12 per cent rate prompted organised protest by a student political organisation that sent sanitary pads to the finance minister with a slogan opposing taxation and staged coordinated campus demonstrations, framing the GST treatment as a gendered burden and calling for reconsideration of the tax classification and rate for menstrual hygiene products.