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Trinamool Congress MP Saket Gokhale connected Monday (November 24, 2025) said that if the Election Commission of India (ECI) is "genuinely independent", it should support the booth-level officers, safeguard the rights of voters, and beryllium transparent astir the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process.
In a station connected X, the TMC's Rajya Sabha MP said that portion the enactment is not opposed to the SIR, it is powerfully opposed to the "rushed, haphazard and opaque manner" successful which the workout was being done successful West Bengal.
TMC has been vocal successful its disapproval of the canvass sheet implicit reported incidents of decease of Booth Level Officers (BLO), peculiarly successful West Bengal.
"Is cruelty indispensable for doing SIR? Across Bengal and the remainder of India, BLOs tasked with SIR are dying of exhaustion oregon by suicide. A process that should beryllium fixed a fewer months is being hastily done successful 30 days," Mr. Gokhale said.
"We've been clear: we person nary occupation with the intent of SIR, which is to cleanable up the elector list. We are, however, powerfully opposed to the rushed, haphazard, and opaque mode successful which it is being done successful Bengal," helium said.
"SIR work should not beryllium a decease condemnation for BLOs," helium said, adding, "SIR should not go a pretext for deleting morganatic voters."
Mr. Gokhale pointed retired that the SIR was not done successful Delhi, Haryana and Maharashtra, the 3 states that went to polls aft the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
"Why past is the ECI rushing to bash it wrong 30 days successful Bengal?" helium asked.
He said the BLOs should beryllium allowed to enactment without stress, and radical should beryllium fixed capable clip to recognize the process and find their documents.
"If the ECI is genuinely independent, it should support BLOs, safeguard the rights of voters, and beryllium transparent astir the SIR process," helium said.
"But the actions of the ECI successful Bengal amusement that ‘cleaning the elector list’ is conscionable a facade. In reality, the mode SIR is being done shows that the wide docket is to make panic and rig the strategy to payment the BJP," helium added.
