West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the ED move, criticising Home Minister Amit Shah and calling him a "nasty and naughty" home minister.
"Is it the duty of the ED, Amit Shah to collect the party's hard disk, candidate list?" Mamata questioned.
"The nasty, naughty Home Minister who cannot protect the country is taking away all my party documents. What will be the result if I raid the BJP party office? On one side, they are deleting the names of all the voters by carrying out the SIR in West Bengal... Because of the elections, they are collecting all the information about my party..." she added.
#WATCH | Kolkata | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, "...Is it the duty of the ED, Amit Shah to collect the party's hard disk, candidate list?... The
nasty, naughty Home Minister who cannot protect the country and is taking away all my party documents. What will be the result… https://t.co/idhFZnWuEj pic.twitter.com/rMjcef7Vhn
— ANI (@ANI) January 8, 2026
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is conducting searches at 15 locations across India in a fake government job scam against an organised gang involved in scamming people by offering fake jobs, officials said, as per news agency ANI.
The raids are being carried out at three places in Bihar, two in West Bengal, four in Kerala, one in Tamil Nadu, one in Gujarat, and four in Uttar Pradesh.
The places being searched included Muzaffarpur and Motihari in Bihar; Kolkata in West Bengal; Ernakulam, Pandalam, Adoor and Kodur in Kerala; Chennai in Tamil Nadu; Rajkot in Gujarat; and Gorakhpur, Prayagraj and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, as per ANI.
The ED raided the office of the Indian Political Action Committee in Kolkata in the morning of January 8, following which the West Bengal CM reached the location and slammed the move of the government ahead of West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026.
#WATCH | Kolkata | West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee where the teams of Enforcement Directorate are conducting raids. pic.twitter.com/kf5vlTRKC8
— ANI (@ANI) January 8, 2026
