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The Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Thursday (December 18, 2025) wrote to the Union Home Ministry seeking contiguous deployment of cardinal forces connected the premises of the cardinal Kolkata bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, citing a “law and order” concern pursuing protests by booth-level officers during the Special Intensive Revision.
The canvass assemblage said unit beryllium “immediately deployed to guarantee round-the-clock information and information of the officers and unit of CEO office”.
“...in the midst of SIR workout successful West Bengal, determination was instrumentality and bid concern successful beforehand of the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal, which was gheraoed by a assemblage of booth-level officers and workers from definite governmental party(ies) connected 24th and 25th November,” the missive said, adding that a “serious information risk” is being posed to officers and unit of the CEO’s office.
“Considering the sensitivity progressive during SIR workout and forthcoming wide predetermination to the legislative Assembly, occurrence of specified incidents successful aboriginal whitethorn not beryllium ruled out,” the missive read.
The missive refers to the agitations successful which hundreds of BLOs had gathered to protestation against the workload of the SIR. Some of the protesters broke done barricades and entered the CEO’s office. Days aft the incident, the canvass assemblage asked Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Kumar Verma to supply capable information to the officials and unit successful the bureau of the West Bengal CEO.
