Singur  

In Bengal, the undoing of the 34-year-long left regime started when police crushed a popular uprising in Singur by using firepower. The villagers were protesting forcible land acquisition by the state for a car manufacturing unit

The farmers' protest in the latter part of the last decade was against the Bengal government deciding to transfer land in Singur to the Tatas for the Nano small car factory. Their protest today is against the Bengal government for taking them for a ride. The difference is that the targets and supporters of the protest have swapped places.
 

You don’t have to visit China to know about single-party rule. Come to Bengal. It’s a little China, sans growth and prosperity. Odisha and even Assam, where normalcy returned only a few years ago, are now visibly surging ahead.