Trinamool Congress leader Rabindra Nath Ghosh ordered the shut down of two local biryani outlets in Bengal's Cooch Behar, claiming that spices in the delicacy were lowering male virility.
A former minister in the Mamata Banerjee government, Ghosh said that several people alleged that the ingredients used to cook biryani resulted in reduced sex drive among males.
"For the past several days there have been complaints from the people of the area that they don't know which spices are being used to make biryani that are deterrents to the sexual drive of a man," Ghosh said.
Ghosh who currently serves as the chairman of Cooch Behar municipality added that people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are operating shops in the area without a valid license.
"After all the complaints, we came here and found that the shops did not have a trade license. So the shops were closed," he said.
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