Leading a massive protest rally against the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raids on political consultancy firm I-PAC, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP of using central agencies to “snatch” the TMC’s electoral strategy and announced to gherao the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) office as part of her next political programme.

Addressing the rally, Banerjee alleged that the ED searches at I-PAC premises, which provide political consultancy to the TMC and manage its IT operations, were aimed at accessing the party’s internal strategy.

Banerjee accused central agencies of functioning as “political tools” of the BJP and warned the ruling party at the Centre against underestimating Bengal.

“All agencies have been captured. You forcibly captured Maharashtra, Haryana and Bihar. Do you think you can capture Bengal too?” she asked, adding, “If someone tries to hit me politically, I get politically rejuvenated and reborn. Chief Election Commissioner (Gyanesh Kumar) is coming here to delete the names of 1.5 crore voters. If you try to snatch the power of voting, we will fight back, we will gherao the Election Commission office.”

“What I did yesterday, I did as the TMC chairperson. I have done nothing illegal,” she said, referring to her appearance at the I-PAC office and at the residence of I-PAC director Pratik Jain during the raids.

Claiming that ED officials entered the premises early in the morning, Banerjee said that by the time she arrived, “many things might already have been taken away.”

“If someone tries to kill me politically, don’t I have the right to defend myself?” she asked, asserting that central agencies were being used as political tools.

Alleging that the money trail ran through “traitors”, in an apparent reference to former TMC leaders now with the BJP, she described what she called a chain linking “Jagannath to Suvendu to Amit Shah”, warning that she had proof stored in pen drives.