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A Booth Level Officer (BLO) was recovered dormant successful West Bengal's Bankura territory connected Sunday (December 28, 2025), triggering allegations that work-related unit linked to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls whitethorn person played a role, constabulary said.
The incidental occurred successful Ranibandh block, wherever the assemblage of the deceased, Haradhan Mandal, was recovered from a schoolhouse premises connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) morning. The constabulary said they recovered a a enactment near backmost by the deceased.
Accusing the BJP of “bulldozing” the SIR process, TMC nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee alleged that implicit 50 lives person been mislaid "to panic, anxiety, exhaustion and fearfulness engineered by a voter-cleansing cognition designed for BJP's electoral gain".
"Mandal was a schoolteacher by assemblage and served arsenic the BLO of Booth No. 206 nether the Rajakata country of Ranibandh block," a constabulary serviceman said.
According to the officer, a enactment bearing the deceased's signature was recovered from the spot, successful which helium reportedly referred to being incapable to header with enactment unit arsenic a BLO.
"We person seized the enactment and sent the assemblage for post-mortem examination," helium said.
The constabulary initiated an probe to ascertain the circumstances starring to Mandal's death. Officials said each angles are being examined.
Abhishek Banerjee, successful an X post, accused the BJP of “bulldozing” the SIR process.
"The decease toll keeps mounting arsenic different BLO appointed and engaged by the @ECISVEEP has taken his ain beingness nether the inhuman unit of a hurried, chaotic and politically motivated SIR process,” helium claimed.
Alleging that the BLO killed himself, Mr. Banerjee claimed that Mandal, successful the note, held the “inhuman quality of the task” liable for his decision.
“What should person been a methodical process has alternatively been bulldozed done by a pliant, complicit Election Commission, bending its spine to service the governmental arithmetic of 1 enactment and the ego of 1 man,” helium said.
“And arsenic for the BJP, if radical driblet dormant from fatigue, despair oregon terror, it is an acceptable collateral cost, a convenient footnote successful their powerfulness play," Mr. Banerjee, the de facto fig 2 successful the TMC hierarchy, said successful the X post.
West Bengal volition neither forgive nor forget, helium said, adding: “History is watching.”
The SIR workout began successful the authorities connected November 4.
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