‘Have guts? Face me directly’: Didi dares BJP after I-T raids

KOLKATA: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee connected Saturday dared BJP to “face her directly” aft I-T raids astatine the homes of her main proposer successful Bhowanipore, Miraj Shah, and Rashbehari TMC nominee, Debasish Kumar.

She alleged that EC had deployed officers with BJP links to selectively raid and apprehension TMC activists. At a rally successful Uluberia, she said: “They are threatening everyone. Raids are inactive happening astatine our enactment offices and connected our candidates. If you (BJP) person the guts, look maine directly... We cognize who you are. We person each the details. BJP won’t enactment successful powerfulness time — if you don’t enactment impartially, radical volition instrumentality antiauthoritarian revenge.” She urged enactment workers to make parallel crushed structures arsenic a contingency. “Women should beryllium a portion of this. Not each observers are bad, but immoderate are portion of ‘Big Brother’s’ extended household and are pressuring SDOs to apprehension TMC members. My campaigner was stopped from campaigning for an full day. Is that not legally wrong? I-T section should not enactment arsenic a BJP puppet,” she said.