Accusing the Trinamool Congress of imposing a ‘syndicate tax’ on all development in the State, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (January 18, 2026) said investment and business would not come to West Bengal as long as the Trinamool Congress government remained in power.
“Industries will only be set up, and investment will come to West Bengal when the law and order situation improves. But in West Bengal, rioters and mafia have a free run. The police are hand in glove with criminals. You know that there is a syndicate tax on all development,” the Prime Minister said at a public meeting in Singur.
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There was much enthusiasm among the BJP’s rank and file over the Prime Minister’s public meeting at Singur, as the place had become synonymous with the flight of capital from the State. Tata Motors had decided to pull out its small car factory from Singur during the regime of the Left Front government in 2008, due to protests against forcible land acquisition, which was led by Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee.
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