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'Amit Shah is nasty, naughty’: Mamata Banerjee says ED snatched our canvass strategy, targets Union location minister
KOLKATA: The ED connected Thursday conducted searches astatine governmental consultancy steadfast I-PAC’s bureau successful Salt Lake and its director’s Loudon Street location successful transportation with a five-year-old case, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to telephone it governmental vendetta and “a crime” and dub Union location curate Amit Shah “nasty and naughty”.CM Banerjee aboriginal said she realised thing was amiss erstwhile she was incapable to scope Jain by phone. KP commissioner Varma and different elder cops reached his Loudon Street residence betwixt 10.30am and 11.30am to “verify the credentials” of ED officials.Banerjee arrived determination astir noon and stayed for 7 minutes earlier leaving with a greenish folder, a hard thrust and a mobile phone. “Amit Shah has sent ED to snatch our party’s canvass strategy and campaigner list.
Is this the ED’s work?” she asked. “They searched our IT compartment bureau and the location of our IT cell-in-charge to cod hard disks and documents having our canvass strategies. The campaigner list, enactment strategy, everything is here. The nasty, naughty location minister, who cannot support the country, is trying to instrumentality distant our enactment papers to triumph the election. What volition hap if I raid BJP office?” Banerjee asked, questioning the timing and intent of the searches, earlier heading for I-PAC’s Sector V office.
How events unfolded
Mamata Banerjee is seen leaving I-PAC chief’s Louden Street location with a greenish folder. She past headed to the firm’s bureau successful Salt Lake Sector V (right), wherever ED conducted a day-long search
- 6.05am | ED squad reaches I-PAC bureau successful Sector V
- 6.30am | ED squad reaches location of Pratik Jain
- 11.30am | CP Kolkata reaches Jain location connected Louden Street
- 12 noon | CM Banerjee besides reaches Jain home. Leaves with a folder, hard disk and a laptop
- 12.45pm | CM reaches I-PAC bureau successful Salt Lake Sector V
- 2.45pm | ED squad leaves Jain’s Louden Street home
- 3.30pm | Jain and his household scope I-PAC office
- 4.20pm | CM leaves I-PAC bureau aft three-and-a-half hours
- 5.20pm | ED squad leaves I-PAC office
What is I-PAC?I-PAC is simply a governmental consultancy firm. Started successful 2013 arsenic Citizens for Accountable Governance (CAG), it strategised for BJP (2014 LS polls), Nitish Kumar (2015), Amarinder Singh (2017), Rahul Gandhi for UP (2017), Jagan Reddy (2019), Uddhav Thackeray (2019), Kejriwal (2020), Stalin (2021) and Mamata Banerjee (2021)Why was it searched?For nexus to a 2020 coal-scam case. ED claims a “hawala” relation facilitated transactions of tens of crores of rupees to Indian PAC Consulting Private Limited, the registered firm
- 6.05am: ED squad reaches I-PAC bureau successful Sector V
- 6.30am: ED squad reaches location of Pratik Jain
- 11.30am: CP Kolkata reaches Jain location connected Louden Street
- 12 noon: CM Banerjee besides reaches Jain home. Leaves with a folder, hard disk and a laptop
- 12.45pm: CM reaches I-PAC bureau successful Salt Lake Sector V
- 2.45pm: ED squad leaves Jain’s Louden Street home
- 3.30pm: Jain and his household scope I-PAC office
- 4.20pm: CM leaves I-PAC bureau aft three-and-a-half hours
- 5.20pm: ED squad leaves I-PAC office
'If idiosyncratic tries to termination you, won't you defend'Mamata Banerjee is acceptable to deed the streets and pb a protestation march against ED searches from Jadavpur 8B autobus basal to the Hazra crossing connected Friday afternoon. “They lodged a mendacious lawsuit against maine (in Calcutta High Court). If they effort to bargain from my home, volition I not effort to forestall it? They stole everything — each data, including the SIR database — a wide lawsuit of theft. If idiosyncratic tries to termination you, volition you not effort to support yourself?” Banerjee said astatine a Gangasagar Mela transit campy connected Thursday afternoon. TMC sources said Friday’s rally is scheduled to statesman astatine 2 pm.
