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As BJP Tries to Nationalise Mamata’s Bengal, Regionalist Didi Defies Modi
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|January 25, 2026
For Narendra Modi, Singur is not just a place on the map; it is a metaphor of conquest.
It marks the location where his politics of speed, decisiveness and industrial promise collided with Communist Bengal’s politics of violence in 2008. When Ratan Tata withdrew the Nano project from Singur in 2008, saying he could not work “with a gun to his head”, Modi sent Tata a one-word SMS, “Welcome”. Where Bengal agonised, Gujarat acted. Now as Mamata Banerjee fights on the streets, Singur has returned as a ghost in Bengal’s electoral imagination. Modi now speaks of paribartan, the very slogan Mamata used to dethrone the Left. Her
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