BHUBANESWAR: Air India’s in-flight magazine Shubh Yatra has mentioned in one of its article that Sri Jagannath Temple at Puri serves non-vegetarian dishes which is wrong.
It’s article headlined ‘Devotion can be delicious’ said, “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 nonvegetarian dishes every day.”
This article has created hue and cry in the state. Intellectuals and devotees of the Lord Jagannath condemned this. Jagannath Sena, a social organisation, staged demonstration in front of the Puri Jagannath temple protesting the wrong information published in the magazine published by the Central government.Jagannath Sena demanded stringent action against Union civil aviation minister and state’s tourism and culture minister.
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik expressed concern about the wrong information. “I think that is most unfortunate. We will take it strongly with appropriate authorities,” he added.
