KOLKATA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said infiltration and cattle smuggling would become “impossible” in West Bengal under the BJP government, as he formally announced Suvendu Adhikari as the leader of the BJP legislature party and the party’s chief ministerial face.
Addressing BJP MLAs and senior leaders at a charged legislature party meeting here, Shah described the party’s emphatic victory in West Bengal as far more than an electoral milestone, portraying it as a decisive political shift tied to national security, democratic restoration and the ideological culmination of a journey that began with Syama Prasad Mookerjee in the early Fifties.
“Friends, this victory is not merely about BJP’s expansion or its ideology. Nor is it only about BJP-NDA forming a government in its 21st state. The biggest importance of this victory is that it plugs one of the biggest holes in India’s national security. Now infiltration and cow smuggling will become impossible in West Bengal,” Shah asserted.