West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday vowed to ensure the return of the Tata Group to the state if the saffron party wins the 2026 Assembly elections.
Addressing a rally in Burdwan, the Leader of Opposition in West Bengal termed the 2008 exit of Tata Motors from Singur “unceremonious”.
Quoting former Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata, Adhikari said, “A trigger was put at his (Ratan Tata’s) head symbolically to quit Bengal”.
“The then Tata group chairman said he was leaving ‘bad M’ and going to ‘good M’. He indicated Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, then Gujarat CM, as bad and good M, respectively,” he claimed.
Adhikari promised that West Bengal will be free from “bribery and corrupt middlemen” under the BJP rule.
“We will ensure employment through OMR sheets transparently. There will be no bribery and corrupt middlemen. The state is saddled with 8 lakh crore loan, has 2.15 crore unemployed, and 60 lakh migrant labourers. All these will be things of the past and Bengal will be on the fast track of economic progress,” he stated.
He also commented on the ongoing SIR exercise in Bengal, saying all illegal infiltrators will be detected, detained and deported.
“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 exercise,” he added.