'Country in chaos': Rahul slams SIR after BLOs death; calls revision 'imposed tyranny'

Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi connected Sunday alleged that “chaos” has gripped the state successful the sanction of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, claiming that 16 Booth Level Officers (BLOs) person died owed to work-related stress.The SIR workout is presently nether mode successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories. Its archetypal signifier was conducted successful Bihar up of the State’s Assembly elections.“Under the guise of SIR, chaos has been unleashed crossed the state - the result? In 3 weeks, 16 BLOs person mislaid their lives. Heart attacks, stress, suicides - SIR is nary reform, it's an imposed tyranny,” Rahul Gandhi said successful a station connected X successful Hindi.“SIR is simply a calculated ploy - wherever citizens are being harassed and the deaths of BLOs from unnecessary unit are dismissed arsenic ‘collateral damage.’

This is not a failure, it's a conspiracy - a sacrifice of ideology to support those successful power,” the Congress MP alleged.A media study shared by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated that 16 BLOs person died crossed six States — 4 each successful Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, 3 successful West Bengal, 2 successful Rajasthan, and 1 each successful Tamil Nadu and Kerala.Following the decease of a BLO successful West Bengal that triggered a governmental dispute, politician CV Ananda Bose connected Sunday said that the passing of Shanti Muni Ekka, who allegedly died by termination owed to “unbearable pressure” from SIR-related duties, would beryllium examined thoroughly.

“In specified a situation, it is amended to debar a knee-jerk reaction. What the Chief Minister said has to beryllium examined successful detail. I americium definite we person an Election Commission which is beardown capable and has a balanced outlook. All these issues tin beryllium examined decently and due solutions found, but what is required is escaped and just elections successful this country,” the politician said.The last electoral rotation is scheduled to beryllium published connected February 7, 2026.The States and Union Territories presently undergoing SIR see Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Lakshadweep, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.

Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress volition clasp an interior reappraisal gathering connected November 24, chaired by enactment wide caput Abhishek Banerjee. The gathering volition absorption connected SIR-related assessments, improvements crossed districts, and ensuring that nary elector names are omitted.Chief curate Mamata Banerjee is besides scheduled to conscionable members of the Matua assemblage successful Bongaon, North 24 Parganas, connected November 25.