Chaos at SIR hearings as Trinamool demands inclusion of booth level agents during proceedings

The Trinamool Congress on Monday demanded that Booth Level Agents (BLA) beryllium allowed wrong peculiar intensive revision (SIR) related hearings happening successful West Bengal for the last two days. 

Trinamool MLA Asit Majumdar stopped hearings at Chinsurah over the issue. Bharatiya Janta Party enactment called for an FIR against Mr Majumdar. 

“They volition not fto BLAs enactment successful hearings, but they are not giving it successful writing, that is wherefore I stopped the hearing,” Mr. Majumdar was seen saying connected Monday. He said the BLAs should beryllium contiguous successful the proceeding process truthful they tin marque enactment of wherefore voters were removed from the database and maintain transparency successful the process.

 However, the hearings at Chinsurah resumed later successful the day, though nary solution was reached implicit the inclusion of BLAs. 

Like Chinsurah, a akin situation unfolded in Bardhaman, where Trinamool workers and BLAs held protests astatine the Sub-Divisional Officer’s bureau and asked to beryllium included successful the hearing. Similar instances were reported from places like Magrahath, and Medinipur wherever Trinamool workers demanded to beryllium included successful the proceeding process. 

“The Election Commission should record an FIR against him (Asit Majumdar). They should besides supply cardinal unit successful places wherever they [Trinamool] are interfering,” Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said from a nationalist gathering in Nandigram. 

Struggle astatine SIR hearings 

Meanwhile, galore radical astatine hearings person complained astir agelong hold successful queues arsenic they conflict with aged age, severe wellness issues, and disabilities. The Trinamool enactment has raised this contented with the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, and a five-member delegation from the enactment filed a deputation on Monday. 

“They are calling 93-year-old radical for hearings. Why is this harassment against elder citizens? Don’t they merit respect and dignity? Why are their health conditions not being considered?” Minister Partha Bhowmick said aft coming retired of the CEO’s office. 

In their letter to the CEO, they also questioned that if the EC tin commencement a installation for door-step voting for radical supra the property of 85 and persons with disabilities, past why the same offer was not being given to these radical during SIR hearings.