Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a rally in Singur on Sunday at the grounds locals still call Tata’r Math, drawing national attention back to the site.
- BJP leaders are using Singur to press a development agenda and have said Tata could return if they win the state, framing the episode as a lost industrial opportunity.
- Modi has flagged new development works worth over Rs 3,250 crore for West Bengal, including a Howrah–Guwahati Vande Bharat sleeper train and other rail projects.
- Farmers say large portions of land returned after the Supreme Court’s 2016 order remain difficult to farm because of concrete remnants and degraded soil.
- Residents report that the state relief of Rs 2,000 a month and 16 kg of rice is uneven and insufficient, even as parties trade blame over a movement that helped elevate Mamata Banerjee in 2011.