Air India says sorry for article on Temple
posted on Oct 30, 2016 @ 4:22PM
Air India today was forced to apologise for publishing an article that said that non-vegetarian dishes were served at the Jagannath temple in Puri. Devotees in Puri and other parts of Odisha came out in protests forcing the national carrier and its chief Ashwani Lohani to apologise and clarify that it did not mean to "hurt sentiments"."#AI apologises for the error.
Our intention was not to hurt sentiments. #ShubhYatra magazine copies have been removed with immediate effect," the airline said in a tweet. . This comes against the backdrop of protests against the article in Odisha.
Said to be the largest in the country, the Jagannath Temple’s kitchen in Puri since its inception has had an army of 500 cooks and 300 helpers to serve 1,00,000 people every day, round the clock – which means almost 285 varieties of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes every day,” the article published in this month’s magazine had said. Various organisations and people in Odisha criticised Air India for publishing the article.