India, Sept. 28 -- On September 25, when Union home minister Amit Shah headed for Kolkata to inaugurate a couple of Durga pujas, Debjit Sarkar, spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Bengal unit and Shankar Ghosh, the party's chief whip in the Bengal legislative assembly, were in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, respectively. Both were urging the Bengali people to tell their friends and families back home to vote for the saffron camp in the 2026 assembly polls.

"I told them that if Trinamool Congress wins again then their friends and families will have to migrate as well. We need their help, I said, because this is the last battle for Bengal's Hindus," Sarkar told HT over phone while rushing to Jaipur after meeting 30 Bengali famili...