Surat: Food festival is said to be held at ”Taste of India” restaurant.
Surat:
Right-wing activists Bajrang Dal on Monday knocked down and burned a large flexibility banner announcing “Pakistani food festival” to be held at a restaurant in Gujarat, a senior office worker said. said and stated that the restaurant concerned had accepted the “mistake”.
This banner hanging atop a building with a restaurant in the Ring Road area was taken down and caught fire amid chants of “Jai Shri Ram.”
The aforementioned food festival is scheduled to be held at ”Taste of India” restaurant from December 12-22.
The president of South Gujarat Bajrang Dal, Deviprasad Dubey, said member activists removed the malleable banner from the building and burned it because they protested such an event.
“We make sure that such a festival is not held at that restaurant. No such festival will be tolerated. The restaurant has accepted its mistake,” he said.
Sandeep Dawar of ‘Sugar N Spice Restaurants’, which runs ‘Taste of India’, said they will continue to serve Mughlai dishes and will remove the word “Pakistan” from the food festival because it hurts sentiment. of some people.
“We won’t use the word ‘Pakistan’ anymore in the food festival because it hurts some people’s feelings. When we use the word, we feel that some people may not like it. , but we don’t know what it’s going to be like… We only serve food that has nothing to do with Pakistan. The second name of Mughlai cuisine is Pakistani food,” said Mr. Dawar.
There were no police complaints.
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