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West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee connected Friday (January 9, 2026) condemned the attraction meted retired to enactment MPs during a protestation extracurricular the Home Ministry’s bureau successful Delhi, calling it “shameful and unacceptable” and an “assault” connected antiauthoritarian rights.
Several Trinamool Congress MPs were detained portion staging protests against alleged misuse of probe agencies by the Centre.
In a X post, Ms. Banerjee said “I powerfully condemn the shameful and unacceptable attraction meted retired to our Members of Parliament. Dragging elected representatives connected the streets for exercising their antiauthoritarian close to protestation extracurricular the Home Minister’s bureau is not instrumentality enforcement - it is arrogance successful uniform. This is simply a democracy, not the BJP’s backstage property.
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“Democracy does not relation connected the convenience oregon comfortableness of those successful power. When BJP leaders protest, they expect reddish carpets and peculiar privileges. When absorption MPs rise their voices, they are dragged, detained, and humiliated. This treble modular exposes the BJP’s thought of ideology - obedience, not dissent.”
The West Bengal Chief Minister further stated that “Let it beryllium clear: respect is mutual. You respect us, we respect you. You resistance america connected the road, and we volition resistance you backmost to the law thought of tolerance, dissent, and antiauthoritarian morality. This is our India. We are citizens by right, not astatine the mercy of a chair, a badge, oregon a presumption of power. No government, nary party, and nary Home Minister gets to determine who deserves dignity successful a democracy.”
Ms. Banerjee is starring a protestation march successful Kolkata against the raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected the I-PAC office, and residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain.
