India, April 3 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing from Bhabanipur into a high-voltage political spectacle, saying he had a "shortcut" to bring about "paribartan" (change) in West Bengal: defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her own constituency.

Shah said while the BJP would otherwise have to win 170 seats to form the Government with a comfortable majority, a victory for Adhikari in Bhabanipur alone would automatically bring change to the State's politics.

Addressing a rally ahead of a massive roadshow from Hazra Crossing in south Kolkata before accompanying Adhikari for his nomination filing, Shah framed the Bhabanipur contest not merely as another assembly seat ba...