New Delhi, Jan. 9 -- Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sanjay Jaiswal on Friday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of "siding with the mafias" after the latter allegedly interfered with the Enforcement Directorate raid in Kolkata at the offices of political consultancy firm I-PAC in connection with the coal smuggling case.

Sanjay Jaiswal said that I-PAC is "a very controversial company" which works with "mafias to topple government."

"When a raid takes place at someone's house, the Chief Minister herself goes there and steals the documents... I-PAC has been a very controversial company from the beginning... In Bihar too, I-PAC spent Rs 60 crore of its money on the Jan Suraaj Party... In Jharkhand, too, they hatched a similar con...