Chandigarh, March 11 -- After deploying Haryanan's chief minister Nayab Singh Saini for Sikh outreach in poll-bound Punjab, the BJP on Tuesday sent Saini to Kulpi, 24 Parganas in West Bengal, where he accused the Mamta Banerjee-led TMC government of turning the state into a safe haven for infiltrators and posing a threat to democracy.

While addressing a public gathering during the Parivartan Sankalp Yatra, the Haryana CM pitched the BJP's call for "Viksit Bengal" under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "People of West Bengal are ready to bring in a change in order to build a Viksit Bengal," he said, pointing out that the land whose great leaders guided the country and sacrificed everything for India's independence has now b...