Hindu leader asks Brazilian clothes brand to remove image of Lord Ganesh


  • World
  • Saturday, 21 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: A devotee buys an idol of the Hindu elephant God Lord Ganesha in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad September 3, 2008. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo

BRASILIA (Reuters) - An Indian religious leader has asked a Brazilian fashion clothes brand to remove the image of Hindu deity Lord Ganesh from one of its lines of shorts for men and women.

Hindu cleric Rajan Zed demanded that clothes maker Jon Cotre offer an apology for "deeply trivializing" one of the most revered gods of Hinduism, the world's third largest religion with about 1.2 billion followers.

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