BJP advises Omar to focus on governance issues
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was tutored on Friday by a Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Executive Committee member, Dr Anirban Ganguly, to focus on governance issues in his own Union Territory rather than commenting on the ongoing Assembly election preparations in West Bengal.
Dr Ganguly, Chairman of the Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, reacted sharply after Omar predicted a clear victory of Mamta Banerjee in the coming Assembly polls in the state. No amount of effort by the Election Commission to gerrymander will change the results. Come counting day, Mamata Didi will win a thumping majority, Abdullah posted on his personal X handle. Commenting on the large-scale transfers ordered by the Election Commission in the poll-bound state, Abdullah said these things happen only in the states where the BJP is not in power. These sweeping transfers only happen in non-BJP-ruled states & especially in West Bengal, but that’s no surprise. However, 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, he added. In a sharp retort, Dr Anirban Ganguly hit back. He posed on X, Stick to J&K, don’t fall for false propaganda, either you have no knowledge of the ground reality in West Bengal or are feigning ignorance!
We don’t want West Bengal (WB) to become the Kashmir of the 1990s, which saw attacks on Kashmiri Pandits and their exodus! By keeping your mouth shut, you will make amends for the sin your ancestor committed in June 1953, Dr Ganguly posed on X.
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 Peeyush and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar.
