India, April 23 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday mounted a sweeping attack on both the Congress and the ruling TMC, claiming that Rahul Gandhi's party would fail to win even a single seat in West Bengal, and that Mamata Banerjee's proximity to the Congress would hasten her political decline.

Addressing a poll rally at Dum Dum area, Shah sought to stitch together several of the BJP's principal poll planks in Bengal - from infiltration and women's safety to 'syndicate raj', dynastic politics and the Babri Masjid issue - while projecting the contest as a decisive battle to end what he called the TMC's "politics of terror".

"I want to tell Rahul Gandhi that in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, you will not even cross double digits. In...