Suvendu vows to bring Tata Group back to West Bengal

Nearly two decades after the Singur movement altered West Bengal’s political landscape, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday vowed to bring the Tata Group back to the state, accusing the Left Front and the previous TMC government of presiding over two contrasting failures – forcible land acquisition and what he called “photo-session industrialisation”, respectively.

Addressing a press conference here, Adhikari said his government would pursue a middle path that protects farmers’ interests while attracting



investments, asserting that “we will bring back the Tatas to West Bengal”.

The remark touched upon one of the most enduring fault lines in West Bengal politics.

The Tata Motors Nano project at Singur in Hooghly district became the epicentre of a political movement that transformed the state’s electoral landscape. The agitation against land acquisition catapulted Mamata Banerjee to the forefront of the state’s politics and ultimately helped end the Left Front’s uninterrupted 34-year rule in 2011.