Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, is quite upset about the application of the GST on puffed rice. On July 21, when speaking at her party's annual Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata, she pulled some 'muri' (puffed rice) from her purse and summoned a vendor to the stage to make a furious point about the taxation of the food item. The typical 'muri' In the streets of Kolkata and other state cities and towns, in markets, and in the local trains that connect the suburbs with the state's capital, it's difficult to miss the 'muri' — known as 'murmura' in northern and western India — vendors. They vigorously shake their steel containers while adding chopped onions, green chillies, coriander leaves, peanuts, and a dash of mustard oil to the puffed rice to rustle up 'jhaal muri
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