India, May 7 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday escalated his charge against the BJP, holding the party responsible for the twin blasts outside security installations in Jalandhar and Amritsar on May 5.

Before embarking on the second leg of his four-day Shukrana Yatra, Mann told reporters at his official residence at Old Baradari in Jalandhar: "No one can break the hard-earned peace and communal harmony of Punjab. Punjab is a fertile land where one can grow any crop, but the seeds of hate cannot be sown here. The recent blasts are the signs of BJP's entry in Punjab."

Mann linked the incidents to the BJP's post-poll rhetoric in West Bengal, citing their slogan: "Bengal sarkar hamari hai, abb Punjab ki baari hai (Bengal is...