Lucknow, March 3 -- Storming the bastion of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that West Bengal, which once led the nation, was now facing a lawless situation.

"West Bengal has always been a land of cultural nationalism in India. It has been the land of revolution for the country's freedom struggle. Today, the anarchical situation in West Bengal created by TMC, CPM and Congress over the years has hurt the entire country," Yogi said on Tuesday.

Launching his West Bengal assembly election campaign from Malda, which is considered a minority-dominated district of North Bengal, Yogi Adityanath said that every worker of the party had come here to connect to the Bengali brothe...