India, July 19 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday accused West Bengal's erstwhile Left Front and Trinamool Congress governments of ruining 'Sonar Bangla' and asserted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BP) would restore the state's lost glory. He made the remarks while virtually laying the foundation stone of Amul's first dairy plant in the state at an event in Rajarhat on Kolkata's eastern outskirts.

"The change ushered by Bengal's people sets the recent assembly polls apart from all elections held in India since Independence. As far as education, religious movements, culture or the struggle for freedom are concerned, Bengal was ahead of other states," Shah said.

"Bengal freed herself from the foreign ideology-driven communists a...