Kolkata, June 21 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday linked West Bengal's Partition-era history with its current political landscape, saying the state was finally moving along a development path aligned with the cultural identity envisioned in 1947.

Addressing an event in Hooghly district to mark "Paschimbanga Divas" (West Bengal Day), Modi said attempts were made during Partition to include the entire undivided Bengal in Pakistan and alleged that the state's past had been "whitewashed" for political reasons.

"Today's youth must know how efforts were being made to make the entire state a part of Pakistan. After Independence it was necessary to take forward the emotions with which Bengal was saved. But efforts were made so that t...