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…
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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…
Lucknow, Jan 8 (IANS) Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday contended that the BJP is staring at a defeat in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) being a clear indication of the party’s desperation.”The BJP is badly losing Bengal. First proof!” Akhilesh Yadav wrote on X, responding to a post that highlighted the ED action in West Bengal even before the Assembly election process had…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Following the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids at the I-PAC office and the home of its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a blistering attack against the BJP-led Union government on Thursday, saying her party’s upcoming Assembly election strategy, candidate list, internal data and financial papers have been “looted” by the central investigation agency in the name of conducting a raid.According to her, the raids and search operatio…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday expressed her anger over the raids by Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials at the office of vote-strategy agency India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) at Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata since Thursday morning, as well as the residence of I-PAC’s co-founder, Pratik Jain at Loudon Street in central Kolkata.She also described the ED operations as the brainchild of Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who sh…