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Kolkata: Booth Level Officers (BLOs) nether the banner of 'BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee' signifier a protestation implicit alleged excessive workload during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, extracurricular Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office, successful Kolkata. (PTI Photo)
NEW DELHI: Central equipped forces volition beryllium deployed astatine the bureau of the West Bengal main electoral serviceman (CEO) successful Kolkata and volition presume work for its information connected Friday, an authoritative said.The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has approved the Election Commission's (EC) connection successful this regard, the authoritative added.“Central forces unit volition instrumentality complaint of information connected the 2nd and 3rd floors of the CEO’s bureau from Friday morning. They volition besides travel officials of the CEO’s bureau erstwhile they question extracurricular the premises successful authorities vehicles,” helium told quality bureau PTI.The determination follows repeated protests by Booth Level Officers (BLOs) extracurricular the CEO’s bureau during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Demonstrators person staged sit-ins and raised concerns implicit the information of the premises.Tensions escalated aft respective BLOs died during the exercise, with the families of the deceased and leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) alleging that a fig of the deaths were linked to enactment unit arising from SIR duties.The West Bengal assembly elections volition beryllium held successful April-May adjacent year.EC issues show-cause announcement to voterMeanwhile, the EC connected Thursday issued a show-cause announcement to a elector aft the individual’s sanction was recovered to beryllium registered successful 2 assembly constituencies—Shyampukur successful Kolkata Uttar and Ashoknagar successful North 24 Parganas—during draught rotation verification.
At 1 location, the elector personally signed the enumeration form, portion astatine the other, the signifier was signed by different person.An authoritative explained that specified duplication could beryllium linked to a alteration of address, but the announcement was issued to found the facts. “The nonsubjective is to question the voter’s mentation and besides analyse the relation of the BLO and different acrophobic officials,” the authoritative added.According to different official, the determination forms portion of "increased scrutiny" of the ongoing SIR exercise, aimed astatine strengthening oversight and addressing immoderate procedural oregon administrative lapses.
