Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held campaign rallies in West Bengal on Sunday ahead of the state's upcoming Assembly elections, calling the vote a battle to protect the state's identity. Speaking in Jhargram (a tribal-dominated district in southwestern West Bengal), Modi accused the ruling Trinamool Congress party, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, of pursuing politics that favoured illegal migrants, alleging it sought to form a "government of infiltrators and for infiltrators." The remarks signal an intensifying BJP push to unseat Banerjee's long-dominant party in a state widely seen as a key electoral battleground.