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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Friday (January 9, 2026) accused the ED of acting arsenic a governmental instrumentality of the BJP to "steal" her party's interior strategy, asserting that she did thing incorrect in reaching the premises linked to I-PAC during the cardinal agency's raids a time ago.
Addressing a rally present aft a monolithic 10-km-long protestation march, Ms. Banerjee said she had intervened astatine the raid tract purely successful her capableness arsenic the chairperson of the Trinamool Congress and not arsenic the CM.
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"What I did yesterday, I did arsenic the TMC chairperson. I person done thing illegal," she said, referring to her unexpected accomplishment astatine the venue of ED's searches astatine I-PAC offices and the residence of its India caput Pratik Jain.
I-PAC provides governmental consultancy to the TMC.
Ms. Banerjee alleged that the bureau entered the premises aboriginal successful the greeting and that by the clip she reached, "a batch could person already been taken away".
"You entered astatine 6 a.m.; I went astatine 11.45 a.m.. By then, galore things mightiness person been stolen," Ms. Banerjee said, accusing the ED of attempting to entree her party's strategical information up of the 2026 Assembly elections.
Escalating her confrontation with the Centre, Ms. Banerjee claimed that "all agencies person been captured" and accused the BJP of forcibly occupying powerfulness successful respective States.
"You captured Maharashtra, Haryana and Bihar by force. Do you deliberation you tin seizure Bengal too?" she asked, adding that immoderate governmental onslaught lone strengthens her resolve. "If idiosyncratic tries to deed maine politically, I get politically rejuvenated and reborn," she said.
The Chief Minister besides trained her guns connected the Election Commission, alleging that the BJP had "stolen" the mandate successful Maharashtra with the canvass panel's assistance and was present attempting to replicate it successful Bengal done the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by deleting genuine voters' names.
She announced that her party's "next destination" would beryllium the Election Commission successful New Delhi to reason what she called harassment of voters during SIR.
