{"id":65454,"date":"2026-03-20T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/ec-transfers-in-poll-bound-bengal-will-not-change-result-cm-omar-abdullah\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T06:31:29","slug":"ec-transfers-in-poll-bound-bengal-will-not-change-result-cm-omar-abdullah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/ec-transfers-in-poll-bound-bengal-will-not-change-result-cm-omar-abdullah\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Transfers In Poll-Bound Bengal Will Not Change Result: CM Omar Abdullah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 20: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said the efforts of the Election Commission to \u201cgerrymander\u201d will not change the results in West Bengal Assembly elections, expressing confidence that Trinamool Congress will emerge victorious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo amount of effort by the Election Commission to gerrymander will change the results. Come counting day Mamata Didi will win a thumping majority,\u201d Abdullah posted on his personal X handle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese sweeping transfers only happen in non-BJP ruled states &amp; especially in West Bengal but that\u2019s no surprise. However, West Bengal will once again prove what I have always believed to be true \u2013 officers don\u2019t win elections for&nbsp;political parties, the leaders of political parties do,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>After announcing the schedule for the Assembly polls, the EC has ordered several reshuffles of senior officers, including the transfer of Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, Home Secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena, and the removal of Director General of Police (DGP) Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar.<\/p>\n<p>Polling for the West Bengal Assembly will be held in two phases \u2014 April 23 and April 29 \u2014 with the counting of votes on May 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 20: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday said the efforts of the Election Commission to \u201cgerrymander\u201d will not change the results in West Bengal Assembly elections, expressing confidence that Trinamool Congress will emerge victorious. \u201cNo amount of effort by the Election Commission to gerrymander will change the results. Come counting day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}