{"id":6387,"date":"2026-04-21T06:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/9-5-out-of-15-days-bengal-faces-longest-dry-spell-before-polls-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:56:55","slug":"9-5-out-of-15-days-bengal-faces-longest-dry-spell-before-polls-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/9-5-out-of-15-days-bengal-faces-longest-dry-spell-before-polls-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"9.5 out of 15 days: Bengal faces longest dry spell before polls | 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-130405020,imgsize-1346891,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/bengal-dry-days.jpg\" alt=\"9.5 out of 15 days: Bengal faces longest dry spell before polls\" title=\"Bengal to go through 9.5 days of dry spell\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Bengal to go through 9.5 days of dry spell\">Bengal to go through 9.5 days of dry spell<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>KOLKATA: Bengal will have to go through an unprecedented unbroken spell of dry days \u2014 nine-and-a-half days over the next fortnight from Monday \u2014 because of the upcoming elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>The orders, which came from the respective district authorities, shocked both the hospitality industry and those who like their evening drink. EC officials claimed they just wanted the regulatory dry period to be followed (48 hours before polls), but seniors in the excise dept and district administrations insisted they were acting under \u201cverbal orders from those overseeing the election in Bengal\u201d.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Sources said officials overseeing the polls had come across an \u201cunusual spurt\u201d in alcohol sales, triggering concerns about voter inducement, and had alerted the excise dept.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The state has 5,000 bars and off-shops, which record daily sales of Rs 80-90 crore. The loss for the liquor and hospitality industry across state has been estimated to be over Rs 1,400 crore \u2014 Rs 900 crore of which will be in Kolkata alone.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/9-5-out-of-15-days-bengal-faces-longest-dry-spell-before-polls\/articleshow\/130404970.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengal to go through 9.5 days of dry spell KOLKATA: Bengal will have to go through an unprecedented unbroken spell of dry days \u2014 nine-and-a-half days over the next fortnight from Monday \u2014 because of the upcoming elections.The orders, which came from the respective district authorities, shocked both the hospitality industry and those who like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","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=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}