SRINAGAR: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Friday described West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as a “tigress”, saying the TMC chief is “very brave” and will not surrender.

Mufti was reacting to the Thursday’s ED searches at the office of the political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its director Pratik Jain in Kolkata. The action ignited high drama with the West Bengal chief minister storming at the raid site, alleging that the central agency was trying to seize the TMC’s sensitive data ahead of the state polls.

Mufti said that while such raids by ED or other investigative agencies have become a normal thing in Jammu and Kashmir, “the whole country is tasting it now”.