J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday (March 20, 2026) questioned “sweeping transfers by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in poll-bound West Bengal”. 

“These sweeping transfers only happen in non-BJP ruled states and especially in West Bengal but that’s no surprise,” Mr. Abdullah said, in a post on X.

He said no amount of effort by the ECI “to gerrymander will change the results”. “Come counting day Mamata Didi will win a thumping majority,” Mr. Abdullah.

He said West Bengal will once again prove what “I have always believed to be true - officers don’t win elections for political parties, the leaders of political parties do”. 

West Bengal is set for elections from April 23 and 29 to elect 294 members.