BJP Leader Links Eating ‘Poha’ To Being Bangladeshi. Confuses Over Half Of India

[Black_cats]

BJP Leader Links Eating ‘Poha’ To Being Bangladeshi. Confuses Over Half Of India

• BY TANZIM PARDIWALLA - JAN. 24, 2020, 12:50 P.M.

BJP’s National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya in a set of bizarre statements said that the workers employed at his house were probably Bangladeshi immigrants. The politician arrived at this conclusion because he only saw them eating poha, a flattened rice dish. This had him suspecting them of being illegal immigrants and he went on to dismiss them from their duties. Poha-eating netizens are now thoroughly confused about a dish most of India has been eating for breakfast since generations. Yes, he got heavily trolled!

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In a recently held pro-CAA seminar, BJP politician Kailash Vijayvargiya was delivering a talk about the act. He derailed to go on and narrate an incident at his home. Apparently a bunch of construction workers employed to install a room in his home were seen eating poha a lot. The minister is now sure that they are Bangladeshi immigrants. As per reports in Aaj Tak, Vijayvargiya said that they had “strange” eating habits.

“When a new room was being added at my house recently, I found eating habits of some of the workers "strange" as "they were eating only `poha'" - Kailash Vijayvargiya (translated from Hindi)

He went on to mention that he hasn’t filed any complaints against the workers and that he only means to warn people of immigration. The workers stopped working on the project after he got suspicious. Twitter is very confused about this latest addition to the weird claims politicians make. Twitterati first responding by calling him out for judging people based on what they eat and then with reference to the origins of poha. The dish is way too common in India!

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[Black_cats]

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Presently politics is heading into a divisive space and with every new CAA address, things are getting weirder. During the Anti-CAA protests, a lot of violence ensued with identifying people from their clothes, the education institute they are associated with or the area they live in and food is something that has always been a subject of disagreements right from the beef ban to the mob-lynchings. This statement by itself sounds like a joke but a high-ranking BJP politician just linked poha to illegal Bangladeshi immigrants so we’re guessing he asked for netizens relentless trolling!

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[Bengal71]

What in the world is Poha?

 

[Black_cats]

What in the world is Poha?

Chira

 

[TopCat]

Now a days Bangaldeshis dont eat Poha as their economic well being already crossed Poha threshold.
These dude certainly are Indians.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

BJP Leader Links Eating ‘Poha’ To Being Bangladeshi. Confuses Over Half Of India

• BY TANZIM PARDIWALLA - JAN. 24, 2020, 12:50 P.M.

BJP’s National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya in a set of bizarre statements said that the workers employed at his house were probably Bangladeshi immigrants. The politician arrived at this conclusion because he only saw them eating poha, a flattened rice dish. This had him suspecting them of being illegal immigrants and he went on to dismiss them from their duties. Poha-eating netizens are now thoroughly confused about a dish most of India has been eating for breakfast since generations. Yes, he got heavily trolled!

SEE ALSO: Piyush Goyal Credits Einstein For Discovery Of Gravity. Joins Ministry of Misinformed Ministers

In a recently held pro-CAA seminar, BJP politician Kailash Vijayvargiya was delivering a talk about the act. He derailed to go on and narrate an incident at his home. Apparently a bunch of construction workers employed to install a room in his home were seen eating poha a lot. The minister is now sure that they are Bangladeshi immigrants. As per reports in Aaj Tak, Vijayvargiya said that they had “strange” eating habits.

“When a new room was being added at my house recently, I found eating habits of some of the workers "strange" as "they were eating only `poha'" - Kailash Vijayvargiya (translated from Hindi)

He went on to mention that he hasn’t filed any complaints against the workers and that he only means to warn people of immigration. The workers stopped working on the project after he got suspicious. Twitter is very confused about this latest addition to the weird claims politicians make. Twitterati first responding by calling him out for judging people based on what they eat and then with reference to the origins of poha. The dish is way too common in India!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220533560802566144

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220409031828942851

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220544965375250432

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220549462151458816

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220551790644559873

https://twitter.com/x/status/1220565192234242051

I have never heard this word 'poha'. I am sure 99.999% other Bangladeshi also never heard this word.

 

[Black_cats]

I have never heard this word 'poha'. I am sure 99.999% other Bangladeshi also never heard this word.

Thats chira

 

[bête noire]

Thats chira

I had to do google search to remember what chira was. Does anyone even eat them anymore? And even before, it was eaten by people very rarely and not like a regular thing.

 

[zeeshe100]

 

[Homo Sapiens]

Thats chira

I had to do google search to remember what chira was. Does anyone even eat them anymore? And even before, it was eaten by people very rarely and not like a regular thing.

Bangladeshi people no matter how poor do not eat chira anymore. It is an outdated practice. Our cheapest variety of rice is just 30 taka/kg which even a beggar can afford. Now a days people either eat rice or wheat bread. chira is out of fashion even for cereal breakfast of the poorest.

 

[TopCat]

Bangladeshi people no matter how poor do not eat chira anymore. It is an outdated practice. Our cheapest variety of rice is just 30 taka/kg which even a beggar can afford. Now a days people either eat rice or wheat bread. chira is out of fashion even for cereal breakfast of the poorest.

Chira is somewhat still eaten by hindu community specially the Doi-Chira along with rosgullah.. thats a delicacy yet expensive food.

 

[UKBengali]

This is the first drama in the disintegration of that multi-ethnic anomaly that is called India.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Bangladeshi people no matter how poor do not eat chira anymore. It is an outdated practice. Our cheapest variety of rice is just 30 taka/kg which even a beggar can afford. Now a days people either eat rice or wheat bread. chira is out of fashion even for cereal breakfast of the poorest.

Yes. I’ve rarely seen someone eat chira, my father used to eat them for breakfast to keep his body cool throughout the day but even he doesn’t eat hem anymore.

 

[Bilal9]

I had to do google search to remember what chira was. Does anyone even eat them anymore? And even before, it was eaten by people very rarely and not like a regular thing.

'Chira' is flattened and dried rice, 'Muri' is what Indians call 'Mamri' (puffed rice). Both WERE popular as breakfast items many years ago. Muri still is, I presume. Both were popular all over India, not just Bangladesh. I think Bangladeshis moved on beyond Poha (chira)...

BJP has given every idiot no-name politician in India a platform to spew verbal racist garbage....

Also - talking about strange eating habits, my friends have recounted as a joke many times how a Sardarji would have one chapatti and bites of a large onion for dinner.

Bangladeshis are amazed at the eating habits of Indians every time they go to India...

 

[El Sidd]

It smells delicious in this thread