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Officials of the Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Friday (November 28, 2025) wrote to the Director General of Police (DGP) successful West Bengal, Rajeev Kumar, urging that each imaginable measures beryllium taken by the constabulary to guarantee the information and information of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) who are presently carrying retired the enumeration signifier of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s electoral rolls.
“It has travel to the announcement of the Election Commission of India from assorted quarters that determination is an evident menace to the information and information to the lives of Booth Level Officers and different tract functionaries. This whitethorn forestall them from discharging their statutory duties towards the behaviour of SIR,” the missive from the ECI noted.
In the letter, the ECI directed the constabulary to guarantee that determination is “no perceptible ambiance of fear, threat, and undue influence” connected these tract functionaries and that nary untoward incidental occurs astatine immoderate place.
This missive comes 3 weeks aft the enumeration signifier began connected November 4, anterior to which, BLOs from crossed the State had approached the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal with apprehensions astir their information portion distributing and collecting enumeration forms from electors. Multiple BLO organisations had written to West Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal earlier this period seeking his involution successful the look of alleged intimidation and threats to the BLOs’ idiosyncratic information particularly by governmental goons.
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Over 80,000 BLOs are presently engaged for SIR successful West Bengal. As of noon connected Friday (November 28, 2025), 99.83% enumeration forms had been successfully distributed crossed the State.
The ECI has besides directed the relocation of the bureau of the CEO connected grounds of alleged information breaches pursuing protests by sections of disgruntled Booth Level Officers. “The Kolkata Police Commissioner has been directed to guarantee implicit information of the existing and caller bureau of the West Bengal CEO,” sources associated with the CEO bureau said.
