Kolkata, June 20 -- Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, union Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, West Bengal chief minister in West Bengal Suvendu Adhikari and state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday extended greetings on the occasion of West Bengal Day, highlighting Bengal's historical contributions to India and underlined the role of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee in shaping the state's political identity.

The leaders, through posts on their X handles, paid tribute to Bengal's cultural, intellectual and political legacy while repeatedly emphasising June 20 as a historically significant date in the creation of West Bengal as an inseparable part of India.

Their m...