Kolkata, July 20 -- Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah targeted Bengal's erstwhile Left Front and Trinamool Congress governments on Sunday saying Sonar Bangla (Bengal of gold) was ruined during those regimes but the Bharatiya Janata Party will restore the glory. "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 after virtually laying the foundation of Amul's first plant in Bengal from an event at Rajarhat on Kolkata's eastern outskirts. "Bengal freed herself from the foreign ideology-driven communists and fell into the clutches of the corrupt and criminal TMC. The Sonar Bangla envisioned by Rabindranath Tagore was lost during those years. But after 10 years of struggle from 2016 to 2026 under the leadership of Suvendu Adhikari, we are on the path to fulfilling the dream of Sonar Bangla. Under the leadership of Modi Ji BJP workers will dedicate their lives to this cause," Shah said. To be built at a cost of around Rs 700 crore, the Amul Bengal Dairy Project at the Sankrail Food Park in Howrah district will process three million litres of milk a day to produce one million kg of curd and other dairy products such as ice cream and butter. "More than 1,25,000 milk-producing farmers in West Bengal, including over 30,000 women, will benefit from this project. This plant will be India's biggest curd producer. Some people said they won't let Bengal turn into Gujarat. This plant is not for Gujarat but for Bengal. Sweet curd from this plant will be consumed by families living across India, from Kashmir to Kanyakumari," Shah told the audience. "Amul is the world's biggest co-operative society. Thirty-six lakh people contributed Rs 100 each and raised the funds. Now the turnover is millions. The Centre will also set up a cattle breeding centre here. In 15 years every farmer in Bengal will have at least two cows and the milk will be purchased by this cooperative society," Shah added. Shah inaugurated several other projects at the Sunday event, including a co-operative society for taxi drivers. Shah, who arrived in Bengal on Friday night on a two-day visit, also held a meeting with senior police and security agency officers in Kolkata on Sunday morning. Officials aware of the meeting's agenda said Shah focused on terror groups, infiltrators from Bangladesh and foreigners staying in Bengal with expired visas. "I came to Bengal for two days to ensure border security, oversee action against infiltrators and ensure the safety of women. I held several meetings about which the chief minister will later brief the assembly," Shah said at the Rajarhat event before leaving Bengal. Addressing the gathering, chief minister Suvendu Adhikari thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Shah for helping the Bengal government carry out new projects and urged the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation to set up two more Amul plants in north and south Bengal. The federation's top officials present at the event readily agreed. "The Left Front and TMC made Bengal economically insolvent in 50 years. The state will now enjoy the benefits of double engine government. Those who said they wouldn't allow Bengal to become Gujarat are watching today from home how Amul from Gujarat is investing Rs 700 crore in Bengal," Before the Rajarhat event, Shah went to the National Library in Kolkata to inaugurate the Museum of Words where interactive galleries focus on the origins of words and languages. "Our nation's culture cannot be revived unless we go to the origin of our languages. I believe that a family's language and especially the mother's language should be a language a child should study in. Every Indian should learn at least one more Indian language apart from their mother tongue," Shah told in his address to the invited school students....