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Booth-level officers, engaged successful the ongoing SIR process successful West Bengal, scuffled with constabulary unit connected Monday (November 24, 2025) portion trying to participate the CEO's bureau present during a objection to protestation against alleged excessive enactment pressure, a elder serviceman said.
Members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee took retired the procession from College Square successful northbound Kolkata, carrying locks and fetters to symbolically adjacent the main entranceway of the gathering successful which the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) is housed.
The demonstrators tried to breach constabulary barricades to participate the CEO's bureau successful cardinal Kolkata, the serviceman said.
The protesting BLOs raised slogans against the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that they were forced to clasp the procession arsenic the "poll sheet did not respond to their complaints of aggravated and inhuman enactment unit during the SIR exercise".
"BLOs person been directed to implicit tasks wrong a abbreviated period, though the aforesaid enactment usually takes much than 2 years," a functionary claimed.
The committee besides alleged that BLOs were falling sick and 2 of them died by termination owed to stress.
The BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee had earlier announced that para-teachers, assemblage professors and teachers from respective organisations would articulation the march to property for contiguous involution by the ECI.
House-to-house enumeration nether the SIR began connected November 4 and volition proceed till December 4, with draught rolls scheduled for work connected December 9.
The committee warned that if deadlines are not extended oregon corrective steps are not taken, it volition motorboat a continuous protestation programme.
Meanwhile, different organisation, BLO Oikya Mancha, had separately flagged issues related to the digitisation of enumeration forms and demanded further enactment staff.
It had submitted a deputation connected November 22.
