'What is Mamata Banerjee hiding': BJP on Bengal CM walking into ED probe and 'seizing documents'

A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an unprecedented move, reached the spot of an Enforcement Directorate investigation and walked off with a set of documents, the BJP asked what the TMC chief was hiding.

Accusing Mamata Banerjee of committing grave penal offences by obstructing a central agency in the course of probe and snatching documents from the location of that probe, BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad asked what sensitive information was the Bengal CM seeking to conceal.

Describing yesterday’s turn of events as without precedent in independent India, Prasad said Mamata Banerjee’s actions were “unethical, irresponsible and unconstitutional”.

“A sitting CM walks into the location of an ongoing ED investigation, senior state cops accompany her, she argues with sleuths, snatches papers and walks off. The raid was on the premises of a private entity, not at CM house or office or at her party office. Obviously, there was something sensitive enough at the location which Mamata Banerjee wanted to remove out of fear of implication. What was that?” Prasad asked.

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He cited last instances, including the anti-sexual assault probe against one of her sides in Sandeshkhali to say that Mamata Banerjee had routinely blocked sensitive anti-corruption and anti-rape investigations in the state.

“Sometimes she sits in dharna in favour of the accused, sometimes her MPs stage protests. What is going on? She is guilty of serious penal offences and the law will take its course,” said the BJP, which is the ruling TMC’s principal rival in Bengal.

The ED had conducted raids at 10 locations linked to political consultancy I-PAC in Bengal on Thursday.

Mamata visited the consultancy's Bengal director Prateek Jain's residence and walked out with a green folder and a laptop.

Prasad said the people of Bengal will “size Mamata up” in the 2026 Assembly polls.

“The basket of her sins is full,” Prasad said.