Kolkata/IBNS, March 14 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday alleged that the "jungle raj" run by the All India Trinamool Congress in West Bengal is nearing its end, as he sounded the assembly poll bugle while addressing a massive rally in Kolkata.

Speaking at the Brigade Parade Ground, Modi said political change in the state was inevitable in the upcoming elections.

Modi further claimed the ruling party had tried to stop people from attending the rally.

"Yesterday, the TMC abused all of you who came to this rally by calling you thieves. But the people of Bengal know very well who the real thieves are. Seeing its power slipping away, the ruthless government here has become desperate.

"Even today, they used every possible means t...