Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Singur in West Bengal's Hooghly district on January 18, 2026, where he will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for various development projects valued at approximately ₹830 crore, followed by a public rally. This visit is part of a two-day trip to West Bengal, which also includes engagements in Malda on January 17. Modi's choice of Singur as a rally venue holds significant political symbolism, as it reopens the nearly two-decade-old chapter of the Singur land acquisition movement. The movement, which peaked around 2006-2008, saw widespread protests against the then Left Front government's acquisition of fertile agricultural land for Tata Motors' Nano car factory. The agitation, spearheaded by Mamata Banerjee, ultimately led to Tata Motors moving its Nano plant out of West Bengal in October 2008, a pivotal event that reshaped the state's political landscape and brought the Trinamool Congress to power in 2011. Ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is strategically using the Singur issue to criticize the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government for perceived industrial stagnation and lost economic opportunities. BJP leaders like Sukanta Majumdar have explicitly stated that Singur symbolizes Bengal's "lost opportunity for industrialisation" and have promised to "bring Tata back to Singur" if the BJP forms the government. The party is campaigning with slogans such as "Parivartan Dorkar