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NEW DELHI: After ordering food on Zomato, a customer wanted it to be delivered by a Hindu rider. When Zomato declined to accept his preference based on the religion of the delivery executive, the customer asked Zomato to cancel the order and issue a refund. The Zomato customer then took to Twitter to share this and claimed that Zomato hadn’t processed a refund after cancelling the order. The customer is said to be from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.Soon after this incident, Zomato from its official Twitter handle quoted this customer’s tweet and said, “Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion.” Interestingly, Zomato founder Deepinder Goyal also joined the conversation. He clarified that Zomato has no place for such religious discrimination and politely showed the exit door to customers who want the option to choose delivery executives based on religion.Goyal in his tweet wrote, “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. [SIC]”Last year, a similar incident took place with taxi app Ola. A UP-based social media adviser of Vishwa Hindu Parishad took to Twitter to complain that he would not travel with a Muslim driver associated with Ola. This had sparked a massive social media outrage when citizens demanded that both his Twitter and Ola account be suspended.Like Zomato, Ola too did not accept the user’s request to offer a driver based on religious preference. Ola through its official Twitter handle said, “Ola, like our country, is a secular platform, and we don't discriminate our driver partners or customers basis their caste, religion, gender or creed. We urge all our customers and driver partners to treat each other with respect at all times. [SIC]”