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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav connected Friday (December 5, 2025) demanded that the Uttar Pradesh Government marque nationalist the advancement of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and guarantee that Booth Level Officers (BLO) are not subjected to "life-threatening pressure".
He besides urged the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the medication to deploy "additional authorised personnel" truthful that BLOs are not "overburdened".
In a station connected X successful Hindi, Mr. Yadav sought contiguous work of the percent of SIR enactment completed successful the State.
SIR पर सीधी माँग:
- उप्र में कितने प्रतिशत SIR हुआ है, इसका आँकड़ा आज प्रकाशित किया जाए।
- BLO पर जानलेवा दबाव हटाकर अतिरिक्त अधिकृत लोगों को समयावधि के अनुरूप इस काम पर लगाया जाए।
- सुनिश्चित किया जाए कि सत्ताधारियों के दल और उनके संगी-साथी पिछले दरवाज़े से इस काम में अब…
Stating that transparency successful the electoral rotation revision was "non-negotiable", the erstwhile Chief Minister said it indispensable beryllium ensured that "those successful powerfulness and their associates are not progressive successful this workout from the backdoor, present oregon ever".
Mr. Yadav further alleged that attempts were being made to delete names of radical belonging to the PDA (Pichhda, Dalit, Alpasankhyak) communities successful assorted assembly constituencies.
The cardinal lawmaker from Kannauj besides demanded a thorough probe into specified complaints and said the authorities indispensable forestall immoderate specified determination "at each costs".
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Uttar Pradesh has witnessed multiple cases of suicides and deaths of BLOs and different officials progressive successful the SIR successful the State, allegedly linked to overwork, accent and harassment.
On November 30, the EC extended the full docket for the ongoing SIR workout successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories (UTs) by a week, amid allegations by absorption parties that the "tight timelines" were causing problems for radical and ground-level canvass officials.
The ECI announced the SIR successful the 9 States and 3 UTs connected October 27. Nearly 51 crore electors volition beryllium covered successful the monolithic voter-list cleanup exercise.
These States and UTs see the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
Uttar Pradesh is scheduled for panchayat polls successful 2026 and the State assembly elections successful 2027.
