Kolkata: Bengal minister and BJP neta Dilip Ghosh’s song ‘Jhalmuri’ was launched at an event at Eco Park in New Town on Saturday. Written and composed by Lokesh Giri and his wife Rimashree, clips of the song recording session had earlier gone viral on social media.
Speaking at the song launch, Ghosh said, “The writers thought I should sing the song. I simply tried my hand at being a singer.”
The song playfully describes the process of making jhalmuri and links it to the political buzz in the state after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a serving of the snack while on the assembly campaign trail.
“Jhalmuri had turned into an election issue. There was need for a song about it,” Ghosh said.