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Fish for votes, eggs for ideology in BJP’s Bengal. Children pay the price

ISKCON has done exactly what one would expect of it. It has never hidden its commitment to vegetarian food. But a government has no business following the dietary beliefs of the institution it hires.

The egg has become the first casualty of the BJP’s promise to respect Bengal’s food culture.

During the election season, the BJP read the room — and the fish market. Leaders flaunted fish and devoured mutton before television cameras. They assured Bengalis that nobody was coming for their plates. Once the kursi was secured, however, performance yielded to policy and the new government decided that school mid-day meals will no longer include eggs. 

The irony would be amusing if the people paying for it were not children.

The new government has entrusted the preparation of mid-day meals in nearly 1,800 Kolkata schools to ISKCON and its Annamrita Foundation. ISKCON runs a vegetarian-only kitchen, meaning eggs will be replaced by paneer, soya, rajma, and pulses to........

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