Guest guest Posted September 4, 2001 Report Share Posted September 4, 2001 > Sari design creates furore in Orissa > > BHUBANESWAR: A Kolkata-based company has created a furore here by >depicting images of the Puri deities on a range of saris. The Sri Jagannath >temple administration has threatened to initiate legal action against the >company if the saris are not withdrawn from the market. > > Temple administrator, Himansu Sekhar Samantroy in a press release issued > at Puri on Monday said that the temple authorities would soon send a > notice to the company in this regard. > > Protests have erupted over the depiction of the images of Lord Jagannath, > Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra of the 13th century temple on the saris > manufactured by Swastik Boutique, which were advertised in a Kolkata-based > newspaper recently with a model clad in one of them. > > Motifs of the three deities were displayed on the apparel below the waist. > > Several socio-cultural organisations have also demanded that the offending > saris be withdrawn from the market immediately even as the Hindu Jagaran > Manch has filed an FIR in this connection at a police station in Cuttack. > > Expressing shock and dismay over the issue, HJM convenor Subash Chouhan > said that the organisation planned to launch a state-wide agitation over > the matter. > > "We will file FIRs in each of the districts of the state against the > perpetrators of this insult to the peoples' religious feelings," he said. > > The local units of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal have > also objected strongly to the controversial saris. > ( PTI ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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