ED raids at the IPAC office in #Kolkata.
WB CM Mamata Banerjee accused HM Amit Shah of stealing her party documents.
It's ED vs TMC all out in open. Whole IPAC office is surrounded by Police Forces amidst the ongoing raids. CM Mamata Banerjee is also present here now.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee visits I-PAC Director Prateek Jain’s residence after an ED raid and says, “Is it the duty of Home Minister Amit Shah and the ED to take away all my party documents? If I go to the BJP party office, what will be the result? Under the SIR, 5 lakh names have been deleted. Just because there is an election, they are taking away all my party’s documents.”
She also said, "Why did you raid our party's IT sector and take all our papers?... Why did you delete 94 lakh names from the voters' list using an App that is not credible?... Whatever the Election Commission is doing is according to the actions of the BJP... More than 72 people have died, some died by suicide due to the SIR. Who is responsible for this? How can they raid the IPAC office? If I raid their party's IT office, will it be alright?... You have crossed all the limits. You have taken all the data from our party's IT Office. Our SIR data, our party policy data, our candidate list, our booth president list, our future strategy. The IPAC is not operating privately. They are authorised by the AITC. They work on our name according to the agreement... Collecting data from any IT sector at any time is it not a crime? Is it not the murder of democracy... We will wait here until IPAC chief Pratik Jain comes here and settles all of this..."
According to a press statement made by ED "The search is evidence-based and is not targeted at any political establishment. The search is ongoing at 10 places (6 in West Bengal and 4 in Delhi). The case relates to illegal coal smuggling. The search covers various premises linked to the generation of cash, hawala transfer, etc., in that case. No party office has been searched. The search is not linked to any elections and is part of a regular crackdown on money laundering. The search is conducted strictly in accordance with established legal safeguards. Certain persons, including constitutional functionaries, have come to 2 premises (out of 10), intruded illegally by misusing their position and snatched away the documents.It's ED vs TMC all out in open. Whole IPAC office is surrounded by Police Forces amidst the ongoing raids. CM Mamata Banerjee was also present at the spot.
