How fish has BJP's plate full in West Bengal

West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari last week offered prayers at the Kalighat Temple on the occasion of 'Kaushiki Amavasya' and partook of a traditional bhog that included fish and 'basanti pulao'. Interestingly, the timing of the visit gave the ritual a political context.The meal came amid a political controversy over Bageshwar Dham chief Dhirendra Krishna Shastri's recent appeal to Bengali Hindus to refrain from eating non-vegetarian food during Durga Puja. As expected, the remarks kicked up a political storm, forcing the BJP’s Bengal unit to publicly distinguish itself from Dhirendra Shastri’s position on food.Chief minister Adhikari, who had shared a stage with Shastri earlier this month and invited him to establish a centre in Bengal, then got into the balancing act.“A religious figure is entitled to express his opinion, but whether people accept it or not is a personal matter,” the chief minister said after his Kalighat visit.Adhikari also…