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KRISHNANAGAR: A 51-year-old from Nadia territory became the 2nd booth-level serviceman (BLO) to dice by termination successful West Bengal wrong 3 days, swinging the glare connected the immense unit connected these govt employees engaged for peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful assorted states.
At slightest six suicides by BLOs person been reported from 5 states.Rinku Tarafdar, a para-teacher, was recovered hanging astatine her Krishnanagar location connected Friday night. She near down a two-page termination enactment successful Bengali, successful which she held EC liable for her death. "I bash not enactment immoderate governmental party. I americium a precise mean person. But, I cannot grip this inhuman enactment pressure," she wrote, adding that contempt being paid poorly, she was not fixed a interruption from BLO duty.Rinku wrote that she "wanted to live", but feared that she would beryllium "unable to handle" the "administrative fallout" of not completing her work. "I person completed 95% of the offline work, but I don't cognize thing astir the online work. Informing the supervisor besides yielded nary results," she wrote.Her household confirmed she was struggling owed to her deficiency of integer knowledge. "She distributed the forms connected time, but didn't cognize thing astir uploading.
This is not suicide, but execution by the EC," her hubby Ashim Tarafdar alleged.On Wednesday, a 48-year-old anganwadi idiosyncratic appointed arsenic BLO was recovered hanging astatine her location successful Jalpaiguri. Her household had claimed that her inability to speak, work oregon constitute Bengali had made the SIR form-filling process and uploading of information highly hard for her.Besides the 2 deaths successful Bengal, 4 different states - Kerala, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu - person reported suicides.CM Mamata Banerjee took to X to explicit her "profound shock". She shared Rinku's termination note, and asked: "How galore much lives volition beryllium lost? How galore much request to dice for this SIR? How galore much dormant bodies shall we see?" Krishnanagar MP Mahua Moitra posted a video speechmaking retired the termination enactment successful Hindi and English.While Bengal BJP expressed grief implicit Rinku's death, it expressed doubts implicit the termination note. Samik Bhattacharya, Bengal BJP chief, said: "The decease has to beryllium probed.
It seems that immoderate decease from adjacent a snake wound successful Bengal volition present beryllium termed arsenic a termination owed to EC. If immoderate enactment thinks EC is moving successful connivance with immoderate governmental outfit, they should sound connected the doors of Supreme Court. EC wants to cleanse electoral rolls and that is against the interests of Trinamool Congress.
"Pointing retired that the BLOs had revealed they were unfamiliar with online work, BJP authorities wide secretary, Agnimitra Paul, said TMC govt should instrumentality work arsenic it had been sitting connected EC's petition to enlistee 1,000 information introduction operators.Bengal's main electoral serviceman Manoj Agarwal said helium was yet to get a study from territory authorities connected the 2 deaths. "Once we get the report, we volition nonstop it to EC for consideration," helium said.
