{"id":36463,"date":"2026-09-08T10:57:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/dhirendra-shastri-durga-puja-non-veg-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:27:41","slug":"dhirendra-shastri-durga-puja-non-veg-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/dhirendra-shastri-durga-puja-non-veg-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhirendra Shastri Durga Puja Non-Veg Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n<article class=\"bf64dc76\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/08\/cover_1788842990813.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/08\/cover_1788842990813.jpg\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/08\/cover_1788842990813.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya has opposed the appeal made by Bageshwar Dham chief Dhirendra Krishna Shastri. Shastri had asked Bengalis to stop eating non-vegetarian food during Durga Puja. Bhattacharya said that people can eat whatever they prefer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Bhattacharya said on Monday that no religious person or political party can decide what the people of West Bengal should eat or wear. He said, &#8220;We eat what we eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>The news is being continuously updated&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya has opposed the appeal made by Bageshwar Dham chief Dhirendra Krishna Shastri. Shastri had asked Bengalis to stop eating non-vegetarian food during Durga Puja. Bhattacharya said that people can eat whatever they prefer. Bhattacharya said on Monday that no religious person or political party can decide what the people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[33573,26680,33571,33757,33760,33759,26700,33758],"class_list":["post-36463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-bageshwar-dham","tag-bengal-politics","tag-dhirendra-shastri","tag-durga-puja","tag-food-choice-controversy","tag-non-vegetarian-food","tag-samik-bhattacharya","tag-west-bengal-bjp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}