KOLKATA, Jan 10: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday took her fight over the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on I-PAC to the streets of Kolkata, saying at a rally that if someone tries to "hit" her politically, she gets "reborn".
This comes after the ED raided the Salt Lake office of the I-PAC, along with the London street home of its co-founder, Pratik Jain, on Thursday in connection with a 2020 coal scam case. Banerjee had stormed into Jain's home while the raid was still ongoing, an action the central probe agency termed as "obstruction".
Defending her action, Banerjee said: "What I did yesterday, I did as the Trinamool Congress chairperson. I have done nothing illegal.
The TMC supremo added that many things had been taken away by the time she arrived. Alleging that central agencies like the ED and CBI were being used for political purposes, she asked, "If someone tries to kill me politically, don't I have the right to defend myself?" "HT
