Omar accuses EC of colluding with BJP, says TMC will still sweep WB in LS polls

Srinagar: Accusing Election Commission (EC) of teaming up with BJP in West Bengal to have a tailor made campaign designed to fragment and polarize the electorate, former J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah said none of it will matter because TMC will sweep the parliamentary elections on May 23.
“The BJP can team up with the EC in West Bengal, they can have a tailor made campaign designed to fragment & polarise the electorate, they can have all their model code violations overlooked. None of it will matter because on the 23rd @MamataOfficial didi will sweep West Bengal,” Mr Abdullah, who is the National Conference (NC) Vice President, wrote on micro-blogging site twitter.
Mr Abdullah was apparently reacting to EC’s decision to cut short election campaigning in West Bengal, where nine out of 59 Lok Sabha constituencies are scheduled to go to polls on Sunday, by a day.
The opposition political parties are questioning the EC’s decision to impose the ‘silence period’, during which no party or candidate can hold public meetings or display any election matter via electronic media, from 2200 hrs on Thursday. They are alleging that time to end campaigning in WB was deliberately kept at 2200 hrs as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s last two rallies in the state are scheduled to end at 1900 hrs on Thursday.