West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest in Kolkata on January 9 following the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on the I-PAC workplace on Wednesday in reference to the alleged faux authorities job rip-off.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) accused West Bengal CM Banerjee of getting into the residential premises of Prateek Jain, the director of high political consultancy group I-PAC, throughout its ongoing search operation in Kolkata and taking away “key proof,” together with bodily paperwork and digital units.

In a press release, the ED stated that its workforce was conducting the search proceedings in a peaceable {and professional} method till the arrival of the West Bengal Chief Minister, together with numerous police officers.

“Banerjee entered the residential premises of Prateek Jain and took away key proof, together with bodily paperwork and digital units,” reads the ED assertion.

Earlier right now, Mamata Banerjee visited the I-PAC workplace on a public highway and accused the central company of unlawfully seizing party-related information, laptops, cellphones, and strategic paperwork. She alleged that forensic specialists transferred information throughout the raid, calling it a “crime” and daring Union Residence Minister Amit Shah to struggle the Trinamool Congress (TMC) democratically in Bengal.

The Chief Minister maintained that I-PAC shouldn’t be a non-public organisation however an authorised workforce of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). She claimed the ED confiscated delicate occasion paperwork, together with information associated to the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, regardless of the TMC being a registered political occasion that often submits revenue tax particulars.

In the meantime, the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on Thursday mounted a pointy assault on TMC supremo following her go to to the Kolkata workplace of political consultancy agency I-PAC, which was raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to the alleged faux authorities job rip-off.

In a publish on X, the BJP alleged that Banerjee’s actions throughout the ED raid raised “disturbing questions” and indicated a “deeper conspiracy.” The occasion claimed that the sight of a sitting Chief Minister speeding to an investigation web site to safe occasion paperwork and laborious disks was not injury management however prompt an try to cover incriminating proof.

“If there may be nothing to cover in West Bengal, why would a Chief Minister scramble to safe recordsdata from an official investigation web site?” the BJP stated, asserting that the reality would ultimately come out and that Bengal would “vote for the BJP.”