West Bengal Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has issued a bold electoral guarantee. If the BJP seizes power in the 2026 Assembly elections, the Tata Group will return to the state with transformative investments, effectively undoing the bitter 2008 Singur debacle that drove the conglomerate away. Addressing an energetic BJP rally in Burdwan town on Sunday, Adhikari harnessed the emotional weight of Ratan Tata’s departure to criticize the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and position his party as the architect of Bengal’s industrial renaissance.

Recalling the dramatic exit of Tata Motors’ Nano project from Singur in October 2008, Adhikari painted a vivid picture of corporate humiliation orchestrated by then-opposition leader Mamata Banerjee. He cited Tata’s own words that a trigger was put symbolically to his head to force the exit and the industrialist’s cryptic farewell about leaving bad M (Mamata Banerjee) for good M (Narendra Modi, then Gujarat Chief Minister). The relocation to Sanand not only cost Bengal thousands of potential jobs but became a lasting symbol of political interference in industrial progress.

Adhikari assured the gathered crowd that a BJP government would extend a red-carpet welcome to Tata, ensuring investments on a scale far grander than the original Nano plant, without the specter of forced eviction. He pledged transparent employment generation through tamper-proof OMR-based recruitment processes, eliminating the bribery and middlemen that have tainted government job allocations under the TMC regime for over a decade.

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Highlighting the state’s dire economic indicators, Adhikari lambasted the TMC for burdening West Bengal with a colossal 8 lakh crore rupee debt while presiding over 2.15 crore unemployed youth and driving 60 lakh residents to seek work outside the state as migrant laborers. He declared that such stagnation would become history under BJP rule, with Bengal catapulted onto a fast track of economic progress through investor-friendly policies and zero tolerance for corruption.

On the contentious issue of demographic infiltration, Adhikari accused the TMC of deliberately obstructing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to protect illegal Bangladeshi and Myanmarese entrants who have allegedly received fraudulent voter IDs and ration cards. With the 2026 polls on the horizon, Adhikari’s fiery rhetoric positions the BJP as Bengal’s economic savior, promising not just Tata’s revival but a complete overhaul of the state’s beleaguered fortunes.

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