{"id":19714,"date":"2026-06-11T06:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/jhalmuri-becomes-a-tmc-tangy-masaledar-crunchy-snack-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:34:44","slug":"jhalmuri-becomes-a-tmc-tangy-masaledar-crunchy-snack-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/jhalmuri-becomes-a-tmc-tangy-masaledar-crunchy-snack-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Jhalmuri becomes a TMC (tangy, masaledar &#038; crunchy) snack | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131646545,imgsize-84380,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/suvendu-adhikari-jhalmuri-to-pm-modi.jpg\" alt=\"Jhalmuri becomes a TMC (tangy, masaledar &amp; crunchy) snack\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Bengal\u2019s iconic snack jhalmuri made a political appearance once again, this time at the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/national-democratic-alliance\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">National Democratic Alliance<\/a>\u2019s 12th anniversary conclave at Bharat Mandapam on Wednesday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>A video of West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari serving jhalmuri to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a light-hearted interaction with leaders of NDA allies was widely circulated on social media.<!-- --> PM Modi later shared the video on Instagram with the caption: \u201cSharing Jhalmuri with fellow NDA leaders at the NDA meeting today\u201d. Photos of home minister Amit Shah, defence minister Rajnath Singh and several other leaders relishing the snack were also shared by the party. In a social media post, Shah described jhalmuri as \u201ctangy, masaledar and crunchy\u201d, as others quipped that the initials stood for \u2018TMC\u2019.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The humble snack, made of puffed rice, crunchy vegetables, spices and a dash of mustard oil, first grabbed political attention in March when PM Modi stopped at a roadside stall to enjoy jhalmuri during his campaign for the West Bengal assembly elections. Later, BJP\u2019s state units served jhalmuri as a special dish to celebrate the party\u2019s success in the polls.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/jhalmuri-becomes-a-tmc-tangy-masaledar-crunchy-snack\/articleshow\/131646541.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Bengal\u2019s iconic snack jhalmuri made a political appearance once again, this time at the National Democratic Alliance\u2019s 12th anniversary conclave at Bharat Mandapam on Wednesday.A video of West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari serving jhalmuri to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a light-hearted interaction with leaders of NDA allies was widely circulated on social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}