Mamata Banerjee stormed in with cops to defend I-PAC chief Pratik Jain during ED raid

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee lost her composure and lashed out at Home Minister Amit Shah at the I-PAC chief's house, where ED was carrying out a raid. She accused Amit Shah of trying to steal her party plan, election strategy and candidate list.

"Amit Shah sent them to collect my party documents"

Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out raids earlier today at the office and residence of I-PAC chief Pratik Jain, as money-laundering? financial irregularity probe with a much larger case reported. Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) is a political consultancy, and Pratik Jain is one of the key strategists associated with the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

Mamata Banerjee is now present at the IPAC Office where ED raids were underway. She has accused Home Minister Amit Shah to be stealing her party documents. Such is totally unprecedented. https://t.co/70TQuLi00G pic.twitter.com/jEJrK4q5Lx

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Mamata Banerjee visited the residence of Pratik Jain, where the raid was carried out, and called it "politically motivated and unconstitutional", She said the raid is not part of any financial probe; it is aimed at seizing the TMC party documents as the election is approaching, like hard disks, candidate list, party plan and strategy.

She slammed the Home Minister of the country, Amit Shah, and called him "Nasty and Naughty", who is unable to protect the country. She then visited the I-PAC office in Salt Lake Sector 5 where she criticised him and stayed at the premises of the office for 45 minutes.

"To collect all of our party's hard disk, the candidate list, party strategy, and the party plan, is it the duty of ED and Amit Shah, the most nasty home minister, the naughty home minister who cannot protect the country and is taking away all my party documents, if i get the BJP office, what will be result? They don't have, they didn't have any guards, on one side, the SIR case, they are deleting all the lenses of bengal people. More than 1.5 Crore have been called, 54 lakhs have been deleted without any asking their details, they are using WhatsApp only and because of election they are collecting all the information of my party. I came here because he (Pratik Jain) is in charge of my party, so my hard disk phone are all connected, they have already attacked my IT official, i am going to sector 5 also." Mamata Banerjee spoke in haste infront of Pratik Jain's house.

Why such a hurry? What secret files were stored at the IPAC office that made the CM, Mamata Banerjee, rush to the rescue of Pratik Jain? Now that ED has all the documents, it will be interesting to see whether the reality of Didi is exposed in front of everyone.… pic.twitter.com/i2fZVwLAlt

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