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 …
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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 …
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday strongly condemned the “utterly irresponsible and unethical” conduct of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who “stands guilty of a serious penal offence,” for allegedly “trespassing” into a private property under ED probe and also purportedly threatening the sleuths.Addressing a presser from the BJP HQ, party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad launched a tirade against the Bengal CM and her administration, accusing her of flouting a…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Political reactions intensified on Friday over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s protest against the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raid on the office and residence of political consultancy firm I-PAC in Kolkata, with a JD(U) leader saying she should focus on doing her job instead of venting her anger.Reacting to Banerjee’s protest, JD(U) National Spokesperson Rajeev Ranjan Prasad said the Chief Minister should focus on governance instead of confronting inv…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Eight Trinamool Congress MPs staged a protest on Friday outside the office of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital. The MPs held placards reading, “Bengal rejects Modi-Shah’s dirty politics”, and accused the Centre of targeting the opposition through central agencies. The Trinamool Congress MPs who participated in the dharna were Derek O’Brien, Satabdi Roy, Mahua Moitra, Bapi Haldar, Saket Gokhale, Pratima Mondal, Kirti Azad, and Dr Sharmila Sarka…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Acting on a call given by party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, leaders and workers of the Trinamool Congress on Thursday evening held protest rallies across the state to condemn the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its director and co-founder, Pratik Jain.Banerjee announced the protest programme after visiting the I-PAC office at Salt Lake in Kolkata earlier in the day….
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) As the politics in West Bengal was rocked by Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids at the Trinamool Congress’ consulting firm I-PAC office and the residence of its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata, the party’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee refused to address the matter while addressing a public meeting in Malda district on Thursday. On Thursday morning, ED officials raided the Sector-5 office of the I-PAC, the consulting firm for the state government and the Trinamool C…