{"id":1002047,"date":"2026-04-09T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002047"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:44:51","slug":"ec-goes-public-after-tmc-spat-draws-criticism-over-social-media-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/ec-goes-public-after-tmc-spat-draws-criticism-over-social-media-confrontation\/","title":{"rendered":"EC goes public after TMC spat, draws criticism over social media confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday managed to get under the skin of the Election Commission at a meeting where the party complained about the alleged deployment of biased officers in Bengal, prompting the poll panel to take the rare step of engaging in a public confrontation that struck at the heart of its neutrality motto. <\/p>\n<p>Coming out of a meeting with chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and his deputies that lasted less than six minutes, Trinamool Rajya Sabha leader Derek O\u2019Brien told reporters near Nirvachan Sadan: \u201c\u2018Get Lost!\u2019 This is what the CEC told the Trinamool Congress delegation&#8230;. Nine letters written by the Trinamool chairperson (chief minister Mamata Banerjee) to the EC. No acknowledgement. No reply. You have ignored all these nine letters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday managed to get under the skin of the Election Commission at a meeting where the party complained about the alleged deployment of biased officers in Bengal, prompting the poll panel to take the rare step of engaging in a public confrontation that struck at the heart of its neutrality motto. Coming out of a meeting with chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and his deputies that lasted less than six minutes, Trinamool Rajya Sabha leader Derek O\u2019Brien told reporters near Nirvachan Sadan: \u201c\u2018Get Lost!\u2019 This is what the CEC told the Trinamool Congress delegation&#8230;. Nine letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}