Detained Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Friday launched a sharp attack on the Enforcement Directorate (ED), accusing the central agency of political targeting and unlawful actions linked to the upcoming West Bengal elections.

Speaking after being detained during a protest, Moitra alleged that the ED’s actions were not part of any genuine investigation but were instead aimed at seizing sensitive political data. She said, “ED is not carrying out the investigation but is illegally stealing. The ED is not taking any action because if there was a seven-year-old coal scam, it suddenly woke up, a month before the Bengal elections, and they remembered the idea of taking action, and where did they go to take action? I-PAC is not a hidden organization. Everyone in India knows that I-PAC is an election strategist, an election consultant. They've been working with the Trinamool Congress not just from today, but for the last seven or eight years, and all our services, all our candidate lists, all our election information is with I-PAC because that's what they do. They raided their office.”

She further alleged that the ED’s visit to the I-PAC office amounted to theft rather than a lawful search. “We would say it wasn't a raid, the ED committed a robbery, and they were taking all our information, and it's our duty, it's our party's duty to protect that information, and that's where Mamata Banerjee, the lioness, went,” Moitra said, crediting the West Bengal Chief Minister for intervening.

Moitra also described the events leading to her detention earlier in the day, stating that TMC MPs were staging a peaceful protest. “Only Mamata Banerjee can stop them like this, and this morning, eight of us MPs came and we were protesting outside the Home Ministry. We were peacefully protesting, and you saw how they picked us up, dragged us, and brought us here,” she added.