'Don't Want A Muslim Delivery Person,' Hyderabad Swiggy Customer Writes On Food Order

The screenshot of an online food delivery order has once again reignited the debate over mixing religion where it is not required.

The screenshot shared by Shaik Salauddin, President of Telangana Four Wheels Drivers Association allegedly shows an order placed with food delivery platform Swiggy in Hyderabad.

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"Don't want a Muslim delivery person" the message along with the order read.

"Dear @Swiggy please take a stand against such a bigoted request. We (Delivery workers) are here to deliver food to one and all, be it Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh," Salauddin wrote on Twitter.

Dear @Swiggy please take a stand against such a bigoted request. We (Delivery workers) are here to deliver food to one and all, be it Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh @Swiggy @TGPWU Mazhab Nahi Sikhata Aapas Mein Bair Rakhna #SareJahanSeAchhaHindustanHamara#JaiHind #JaiTelangana pic.twitter.com/XLmz9scJpH

¡ª Shaik Salauddin (@ShaikTgfwda) August 30, 2022

People call out bigoted behaviour

Swiggy has not publicly responded to the post yet, however, many Twitter users called out the outrageous demand and suggested that such customers should be banned from the platform.

Platform companies cannot sit back and watch as gig workers face such blatant bigotry in the name of religion. What action will such companies take to safeguard the rights of gig workers? @Swiggy @TGPWU @Connect_IFAT

¡ª Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) August 31, 2022

This man must be black listed - no one should deliver here

¡ª pallavi ghosh (@_pallavighosh) August 31, 2022

@Swiggy please cancel all such orders that make such outlandish and bigoted requests...

¡ª Vinti (@drvintiagarwal) August 30, 2022

Not the first time

Sadly this is not the first time, and in all likelihood, not the last time, food delivery executives who are just delivering customer orders have been discriminated against for their religion.

In October 2019, Ajay Kumar, a Swiggy customer from Hyderabad had refused to receive his food order because the delivery executive was a Muslim.

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According to Kumar, he had given specific instructions to the Swiggy app saying, ¡°Very less spicy. And, please select a Hindu delivery person. All ratings will be based on this.¡±

Despite this, when he learned that the delivery executive's name is Mudassir Omar, Kumar refused to accept the food and agreed to pay Rs 95 as cancelation charges for the order.

Food has no religion

In August 2019, Zomato too had faced a similar demand when a person named Amit Shukla from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh cancelled his food order because the food delivery executive was a Muslim.

"Just cancelled an order on @ZomatoIN they allocated a non-Hindu rider for my food they said they can't change rider and can't refund on cancellation I said you can't force me to take a delivery I don't want don't refund just cancel," he wrote on Twitter.

Zomato responded to the customers saying 'Food has no religion'.

Zomato's founder Deepinder Goyal also echoed his company's stand and said that "we aren't sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of our values."

We are proud of the idea of India - and the diversity of our esteemed customers and partners. We aren¡¯t sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of our values. ?? https://t.co/cgSIW2ow9B

¡ª Deepinder Goyal (@deepigoyal) July 31, 2019

"We are proud of the idea of India - and the diversity of our esteemed customers and partners. We aren't sorry to lose any business that comes in the way of our values," he tweeted.

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