{"id":6868,"date":"2026-04-21T05:45:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T21:45:05","slug":"pm-modi-eats-jhalmuri-now-google-searches-for-it-hit-22-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=6868","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi eats jhalmuri, now Google searches for it hit 22-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Google searches for &#8216;jhalmuri&#8217; have hit their highest level in 22 years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped for the Bengali street snack during a campaign visit to Jhargram in West Bengal.<\/p> <p>Modi made an unscheduled stop on Sunday and savoured jhalmuri, a popular snack made of puffed rice, green chillies and spices, at a nondescript shop in the district.<\/p> <p>The prime minister later posted photos and video of the visit on social media. &#8220;Amid four public meetings spanning across West Bengal on a hectic Sunday, I savoured some delicious spicy puffed rice, Jhalmuri in Jhargram,&#8221; he said in posts on X.<\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"bn\" xml:lang=\"bn\">\u09ac\u09cd\u09af\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4 \u09b0\u09ac\u09bf\u09ac\u09be\u09b0\u09c7 \u09aa\u09b6\u09cd\u099a\u09bf\u09ae\u09ac\u0999\u09cd\u0997 \u099c\u09c1\u09a1\u09bc\u09c7 \u099a\u09be\u09b0\u099f\u09bf \u099c\u09a8\u09b8\u09ad\u09be\u09b0 \u09ab\u09be\u0981\u0995\u09c7, \u099d\u09be\u09a1\u09bc\u0997\u09cd\u09b0\u09be\u09ae\u09c7 \u09b8\u09c1\u09b8\u09cd\u09ac\u09be\u09a6\u09c1 \u099d\u09be\u09b2\u09ae\u09c1\u09a1\u09bc\u09bf \u0996\u09c7\u09b2\u09be\u09ae\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqIrc0zrmR\">pic.twitter.com\/VqIrc0zrmR<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/2045842416645886087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>The stop quickly went viral online. PM Modi&#8217;s visit to the jhalmuri shop clocked 100 million views within 24 hours on his Instagram account and nearly 90 million views on Facebook.<\/p> <p>The Prime Minister, who was accompanied by security personnel, also paid the shopkeeper for the snack. When the man refused to take the money, Modi insisted that he accept it.<\/p> <p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the stop was &#8220;just a \u2018drama\u2019&#8221;. &#8220;How come cameras were present when he made the unscheduled stop? The entire episode was scripted,&#8221; she said at a rally in Murarai in Birbhum district.<\/p> <p>The viral moment also triggered a wave of online chatter.\u00a0<\/p> <p>One social media user wrote: &#8220;Since #PMModi has popularised it, #Jhalmuri now has the potential to become THE thing that leaders all over the world ask for when they visit us, or even when they don&#8217;t! It should be making it&#8217;s way to prominent positions in the menus of fancy restaurants.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Sameer, a surgeon, shared a Google search history, which showed jahmuri highest searched since 2004. &#8220;Search for Jhalmuri since 2000 till date&#8230; see the spike \u00a0after PM @narendramodi ji visited a Jhalmuri shop \u00a0yesterday\ud83d\ude02 I have always said: Modiji is not a trendsetter, he is THE TREND.&#8221;<\/p> <p>\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>PM Modi jhalmuri, Jhargram jhalmuri, West Bengal campaign, Google search jhalmuri, jhalmuri viral, Mamata Banerjee drama, Bengali street food, Narendra Modi West Bengal, jhalmuri snack, social media viral snack<\/p> <p>#Modi #eats #jhalmuri #Google #searches #hit #22year #high1776721505<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google searches for &#8216;jhalmuri&#8217; have hit their highest level in 22 years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi stopped for the Bengali street snack during a campaign visit to Jhargram in West Bengal. Modi made an unscheduled stop on Sunday and savoured jhalmuri, a popular snack made of puffed rice, green chillies and spices, at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[25644,25639,18272,75,25636,2013,2185,25643,25641,25637,25634,25638,3319,25640,25633,222,25642,25635],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-22year","tag-bengali-street-food","tag-eats","tag-google","tag-google-search-jhalmuri","tag-high","tag-hit","tag-jhalmuri","tag-jhalmuri-snack","tag-jhalmuri-viral","tag-jhargram-jhalmuri","tag-mamata-banerjee-drama","tag-modi","tag-narendra-modi-west-bengal","tag-pm-modi-jhalmuri","tag-searches","tag-social-media-viral-snack","tag-west-bengal-campaign"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}