Kolkata: Hitting out at the BJP, West Bengal Senior Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday branded the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on I-PAC premises in Kolkata as an wade on her. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo comments made these comments without a protest march versus Thursday’s ED raid.
What did Mamata Banerjee say?
The TMC senior moreover said that such attacks only make her stronger and that she has wilt yawner to them. Banerjee described Thursday’s ED raid as a rebirth for her and tabbed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a tyrannical and warlike party. She so-called that the BJP calls Bengalis Bangladeshis and that people's names have been removed from the voter list through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
What was Mamata’s statement versus the Election Commissioner?
Banerjee moreover slammed Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over the removal of names from the voters’ list. The West Bengal Senior Minister targeted the Election Commission, alleging that the BJP had ‘stolen’ the mandate in Maharashtra with its help and was now trying to do the same in Bengal by removing the names of legitimate voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. Mamata Banerjee spoken that her party's ‘next destination’ would be the Election Commission in New Delhi, where they would protest the so-called harassment of voters during the SIR.
What are the allegations versus the ED?
Mamata Banerjee so-called on Friday that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is vicarial as a political weapon for the ruling BJP at the Centre to steal her party's Trinamool Congress's strategies. She said that her presence at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its head, Pratik Jain, during the ED raids on Thursday was not wrong.
Addressing a rally here without a massive ten-kilometre protest march, Mamata Banerjee said that she intervened at the raid site purely as the Trinamool Congress president, not as the Senior Minister.
What does I-PAC do?
Referring to her unexpected inrush at the raid site, she said, "Whatever I did yesterday, I did as the president of the Trinamool Congress. I have not washed-up anything illegal." I-PAC provides political consulting services to the Trinamool Congress. Banerjee so-called that the organ entered the premises early in the morning and by the time she arrived, a lot of material had once been taken away.
"You entered the premises at 6 am. I reached there at virtually 11:45 am. By then, many things would have been stolen," the Trinamool senior said.
She accused the ED of trying to wangle her party's strategic documents superiority of the 2026 turnout elections. Banerjee, escalating her confrontation with the inside government, personal that all agencies have been compromised.
What did Mamata say versus the BJP?
She accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of forcibly seizing power in several states.
She questioned, "You seized power in Maharashtra, Haryana, and Bihar by force. Do you think you can seize power in Bengal too?"
Banerjee said that every political wade only strengthens her resolve.
"If someone tries to target me politically, I get renewed political energy and a new lease on life," she added.
