Kolkata: As the turnout elections in West Bengal yank closer, political tensions are escalating. On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consultancy and referendum management company.
West Bengal Senior and Trinamool Congress supremo Minister Mamata Banerjee moreover stormed to the I-PAC premises to forcibly take yonder sensitive documents, without which the controversy intensified.
What are the developments so far?
Two separate FIRs have been filed versus the ED in West Bengal. The matter has moreover reached the courts. The TMC has petitioned the magistrate to declare the ED's deportment illegal and to order the firsthand return of all confidential party documents. Earlier in the day, the ED filed a petition ultimatum that the raids were unfluctuating to the 'Bengal coal mining' scam and accused Mamata Banerjee of 'obstructing' the official investigation.
What is happening I Kolkata today?
Mamata Banerjee has spoken a protest march on Friday versus the Enforcement Directorate's raids. She termed the whoopee politically motivated and an struggle to intimidate the TMC surpassing the elections.
What has the Congress said?
The West Bengal unit of the Congress has moreover protested versus the ED raids. The opposition commonly alleges that the Modi government is deliberately and selectively targeting their leaders through inside investigative agencies.
What has the PDP said?
Meanwhile, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Jammu and Kashmir Senior Minister Mehbooba Mufti has tabbed West Bengal Senior Minister Mamata Banerjee a "lioness." On Friday, Mufti praised Mamata, saying the Trinamool Congress senior is "very brave" and will not when down. Mufti was reacting to the raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday at the office of the political consulting firm 'I-PAC' and the residence of its director, Prateek Jain, in Kolkata.
Mufti said that while such raids by the ED or other investigating agencies have wilt commonplace in Jammu and Kashmir, "the unshortened country is now experiencing this."
Referring to her own arrest, and the arrests of Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah without the leaving of most provisions of Article 370, she said, "When Article 370 was abrogated, raids were conducted and three senior ministers were put in jail, and at that time most political parties remained silent. Now the same situation is stuff seen wideness the country."
The PDP senior said, "I hope that Banerjee is very brave, she is a lioness, and she will powerfully fight them and will not surrender." Mehbooba Mufti is, in fact, trying to target the ruling BJP at the part-way through Mamata Banerjee. Mehbooba has long been a critic of the BJP and the inside government. Now, by praising Mamata, she has symbolically expressed her support for her fight.
