Burdwan: West Bengal’s Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said a BJP victory in the 2026 Assembly elections would mark the state’s “return to industrial glory,” pledging to bring the Tata group back to invest “in a big way.” 

Speaking at a rally here, Adhikari recalled the Tata Motors’ 2008 exit from Singur, calling it “unceremonious” and blaming the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for driving the group out of the state.

“Ratan Tata once said a trigger was put at his head symbolically to quit Bengal,” Adhikari told the crowd, reviving memories of the high-profile controversy that had stalled the Nano car project. 

Taking a direct swipe at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Adhikari claimed, “The then Tata group chairman said he was leaving ‘bad M’ and going to ‘good M’.

He indicated Banerjee and Narendra Modi, then Gujarat CM, as bad and good M, respectively.” Promising to restore investor confidence, the BJP leader asserted that a BJP government in Bengal would ensure a corruption-free administration.

“There will be no bribery and corrupt middlemen. We will ensure employment through OMR sheets transparently. Under BJP rule, Bengal will be on the fast track of economic progress,” he said.

Adhikari also criticised the state’s mounting debt and unemployment, alleging that Bengal was “saddled with ₹8 lakh crore in loans,” with “2.15 crore unemployed youth” and “60 lakh migrant labourers forced to leave for work.”

Reiterating the BJP’s stance on illegal immigration, he accused the TMC of “opposing the SIR (Statewide Identification Register) exercise to protect infiltrators.”

He added, “All those Bangladeshi and Myanmarese Muslims given voter ID cards and ration cards illegally by the TMC will be detected, detained, and deported following the SIR.”

With the 2026 Assembly polls on the horizon, Adhikari’s remarks signal a renewed push by the BJP to revive the emotive Singur narrative — a flashpoint that once defined Banerjee’s political rise — and turn it into a rallying cry for Bengal’s industrial future.