Ahmedabad, May 28 -- Union home minister Amit Shah, who is on a three-day visit to Gujarat, on Thursday said that infiltration situation in West Bengal had changed within days of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government taking office, alleging that while 5,000 to 10,000 people earlier entered the state daily, the same number were now "going back each day".

Addressing a gathering in Ahmedabad, Shah said the impact of the political change in West Bengal was already visible. "The chief minister of Bengal has taken oath only recently, and the change is already visible - earlier, 5,000 to 10,000 infiltrators used to enter every day; now, 5,000 to 10,000 have started going back each day," he said.

Shah said that alongside economic tran...