India, Jan. 28 -- Bharatiya Janata Party's newly appointed national president, Nitin Nabin, on Wednesday said that party workers will ensure West Bengal "never becomes Bangladesh" and that they are "ready to make any sacrifice."

Accusing West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of attempting to turn the state into a Bangladesh, Nabin said at a BJP workers' meeting in West Burdwan district's Durgapur city, "The Mamata Banerjee government is trying to turn Bengal into a Bangladesh. It is shielding infiltrators. The demographic character of Bengal is being altered through appeasement politics."

He also accused the state government of misleading people about the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral roll. "This gove...