Himalaya Harbinger, Uttarakhand Bureau
The ongoing face-off between the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) escalated on Friday as the political flashpoint reached the doorstep of Union home minister Amit Shah, a day after party supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s dramatic visit to the residence I-PAC head and political consultancy group’s office amid ED raids.
Eight AITC MPs were seen staged a dharna outside Shah’s office in Delhi on Friday morning, protesting the ED raids conducted at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) office in Kolkata a day earlier.
Holding placards and raising slogans, the MPs accused the Centre of misusing central agencies to target opposition parties ahead of elections.
Those leading the protest included Mahua Moitra, Derek O’Brien, Satabdi Roy, Bapi Haldar, Saket Gokhale, Pratima Mondal, Kirti Azad and Dr Sharmila Sarkar. Visuals from the site showed MPs holding placards that read, “Bengal rejects Modi-Shah’s dirty politics,” as they sought to highlight what the party called political vendetta against the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal.
I-PAC which does political consultancy for TMC and also looks after its IT and media cell.
The standoff was triggered by ED raids at I-PAC chief Pratik Jain’s residence and gro
