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A Bharatiya Janta Party delegation met with West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose on Friday (January 8, 2026) afternoon, pursuing the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid connected Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s protest against it.
The delegation included 5 BJP leaders– Locket Chaterjee, Sishir Bajoria, Shashi Agnihotri, Indranil Khan, and Phalguni Patra.
“The behaviour of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a instrumentality enforcement agency’s raid connected the bureau of an entity related to the coal scam represents a superior breach of law propriety and enforcement restraint,” the missive signed by the 5 BJP leaders said.
They besides raised concerns astir the alleged removal of documents by the Kolkata Police from the tract of the ED raid. Their missive besides raised questions astir wherefore authorities officials interfered successful a Central bureau raid astatine a backstage firm.
“This occurrence brazenly erases the enactment betwixt enactment and State, arsenic good arsenic betwixt governance and intimidation,” the missive further said. They asked the Governor to instrumentality contiguous enactment against this breakdown of the State machinery and asked him to question a elaborate study connected the full incidental from the State authorities.
Commenting connected the full issue, BJP State president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said that the law machineries of the State are breaking down. “The coming days are going to beryllium precise acheronian for West Bengal. This State has go a laughingstock astatine the satellite stage,” Mr. Bhattacharya said.
BJP leaders and workers besides held a protestation march at Dharmatala in the bosom of Kolkata. This came adjacent arsenic Ms. Banerjee led her ain march against the raids astatine the I-PAC bureau and their co-founder Pratik Jain’s residence. A immense number of Trinamool Congress supporters and galore MPs and MLAs walked on with Ms. Banerjee.
