Siliguri, Jan. 9 -- Congress party's West Bengal in-charge, Ghulam Ahmad Mir has alleged that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids at the I-PAC office in Kolkata were "politically timed" due to the assembly elections approaching. He accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of routinely using central agencies before polls, and said the people of West Bengal should see how the BJP and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) "get into match-fixing".

Speaking to the media, the Congress leader said corruption cases in West Bengal have existed for years, but questioned the timing of the ED action ahead of the upcoming assembly polls.

"There have been corruption cases in West Bengal for years now. But it has become a fashion among the BJP that whenever...