New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) An Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid conducted last week in Kolkata at the premises of a political consultancy group professionally linked with West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress has turned into a centre-state confrontation, again leading to questions over operational issues in a federal structure.Thursday’s raid, along with subsequent media coverage and ground reports, underscore how such relations in a federal setup are increasingly tested when central agencie…
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New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Monday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, claiming that the BJP’s political fight in the state is not an ordinary electoral contest but a struggle between terrorism and democracy. He asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s government must be removed from power.Speaking on the political situation in West Bengal, Giriraj Singh claimed, “In West Bengal, the BJP is fighting a battle betwee…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Kolkata Police have decided to formally approach the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to obtain the names and details of officers who conducted raids last week at the I-PAC office in Salt Lake and the residence of its director, Pratik Jain, on Loudon Street.Simultaneously, city police investigators will continue efforts to identify ED and CRPF personnel through CCTV footage collected from both locations.Sources said that investigators have already learnt that an ED Assistant D…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) The Regional office of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Kolkata, on Saturday, sent a detailed report to its headquarters in New Delhi on the sequence of events on January 8 in relation to the simultaneous raid and search operations by the central agency officials at the Kolkata office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain.Now, after examining the report sent by ED’s Kolkata regional office, the same will be f…
Mumbai/New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday hit back at AIMIM chief and MP Asaduddin Owaisi over his statement, saying that “a hijab-wearing woman cannot become the Prime Minister of India, though she could become the Prime Minister of Pakistan or Bangladesh.” Owaisi, during a programme, had said that it was his dream that one day a hijab-wearing daughter would become the Prime Minister of the country.Speaking to IANS in Mumbai, Sanjay Nirupam said that a hija…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) BJP leader Smriti Irani launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday, questioning the circumstances under which she allegedly arrived with police personnel during an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid to save the accused. The ED has alleged that its proceedings were disrupted after Banerjee reached the residence of Pratik Jain, co-founder of the I-PAC, accompanied by a large number of police personnel.Speaking to reporters, Smriti Irani …
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Kolkata Police personnel on Saturday afternoon reached the residence of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) co-founder Pratik Jain to identity the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials and the accompanying Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) team present during Thursday’s raids by the central agency.The identification of the ED and CRPF officials and personnel engaged in Thursday’s raid and search operation is being done both from the footage of CCTV cameras install…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Amid Trinamool Congress’ hyper-reactions over the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) simultaneous raid and search operations on Thursday at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) at Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain at Loudon Street in central Kolkata, I-PAC on Friday issued an extremely guarded statement in the matter.At the same time, I-PAC, in its statement, assured all necessary coop…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s that rocked the US, there has been a tendency to name perceived wrongdoings with the suffix “gate”, thus, it did not take much time in branding the narrative of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reportedly entering premises under a probe agency’s raid and personally retrieving documents as “I-PAC-gate”. This was in connection with the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) Thursday raids at the political consultancy agency, Indian…
Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday strongly criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress supremo over her conduct during and after the recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid at the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC, as a legal confrontation between the Trinamool Congress and the Centre is set to unfold on January 14.Reacting to the developments, CM Sarma said CM Banerjee’s behaviour at the site of the ED …