Kolkata (08.01.2026): The way West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat on dharna against CBI that tried to quiz in 2019 the then Kolkata Police Commissioner and incumbent West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, similarly again the West Bengal CM rushed to the residence of Prateek Jain, the head of top political consultancy group I-PAC after an ED raid. She accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the ED of attempting to take away all party documents. The company originally belongs to Prashant Kishor.
She claimed that officials attempted to seize Trinamool Congress's (TMC) hard disks as well as internal documents and sensitive data. Search operations were also conducted at the office of the I-PAC, (Indian Political Action Committee), which looks after political consultancy for West Bengal ruling party TMC's and also looks after its IT and media cell.
In videos of her visit to Jain's residence and office that surfaced on social media, Mamata Banerjee was visibly charged, dodging media persons to make her way amid noisy scenes. She said that the raid at the residence of Jain, whom she termed as the party's IT chief, was "politically motivated and unconstitutional".
“They have raided the residence of our IT chief. They were confiscating my party’s documents and hard disks, which has details about our candidates for the assembly polls. I have brought those back,” said Mamata Banerjee.
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal assembly, BJP's Suvendu Adhikari termed chief minister Mamata Banerjee's visit to I-PAC chief Pratik Jain's house during the ED raid on Thursday as "unconstitutional and interference" in the central agency's probe. He said that the ED should take steps against the chief minister.
