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Bengal CM furious over ED’s raid at I-PAC offices; calls it conspiracy by HM Shah

IANS | January 08, 2026 01:30 PM

KOLKATA: 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 she termed the “naughtiest and nastiest” home minister of the country.

On getting the news of simultaneous ED operations at two places, accompanied by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, the Chief Minister and the Kolkata Police Commissioner, Manoj Kumar Verma, also reached Jain’s residence at Loudon Street on Thursday afternoon.

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