Tata Motors Ltd.

…offered the site to manufacturer Tata Motors to produce a new car model named Nano. This was fiercely opposed by farmers facing displacement, environmental activists, sections of Bengali civil society, and the TMC. Banerjee waged a 25-day hunger strike, which became a key factor in Tata Motors’ eventually relocating its…

…Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata Motors Ltd. of India in 2008. The company began selling its Mazda shares that same year, and completely divested itself of the automaker in 2015.

The following year Tata oversaw Tata Motors’ purchase of the elite British car brands Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company. The $2.3 billion deal marked the largest-ever acquisition by an Indian automotive firm.