Mehbooba Mufti Hails Mamata, Says ED Tactics Replicate ‘Kashmir Laboratory’
She framed recent agency actions as extensions of measures used in Jammu and Kashmir after Article 370.
Overview
- On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate searched I-PAC’s Kolkata office and the home of director Pratik Jain, prompting a direct confrontation with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
- Banerjee went to the raid sites, retrieved files and later led a rally in Kolkata, alleging the agency was trying to seize TMC data ahead of state polls.
- PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti praised Banerjee as a “tigress” and said nationwide raids mirror tactics first deployed in Jammu and Kashmir.
- Mufti condemned the National Medical Commission’s withdrawal of approval for the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi medical college’s 50-seat MBBS course this year, calling the step dangerous and unfortunate.
- She alleged right-wing pressure behind the NMC move and hinted at a nexus involving Chief Minister Omar Abdullah—claims reported as her allegations—and warned against religion-based calls for separate statehood for Jammu.