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All Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) appointed for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of West Bengal’s electoral rotation joined enactment by Thursday noon (October 30, 2025) aft the issuance of suspension warnings to absentee BLOs connected the erstwhile day, sources astatine the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer said.
While the recruitment, appointment, and grooming of BLOs started earlier this year, 143 absentee BLOs were issued warnings of suspension by predetermination officials connected Wednesday afternoon.
Earlier successful the month, implicit 1,000 BLOs successful West Bengal were issued showcause notices for failing to instrumentality charge.
A conception of BLOs had besides written to the Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, expressing apprehension astir participating successful the SIR process, citing threats to their idiosyncratic safety. The Chief Electoral Officer allayed their fears, and told the media that helium was assured the SIR would beryllium concluded smoothly and successfully.
‘At slightest 1 per booth’
About 80,681 BLOs had been appointed to execute the SIR exercise, on with 8,000 BLO supervisors, implicit 3,000 adjunct electoral registration officers, and 294 electoral registration officers, Mr. Agarwal said.
With the joining of the full BLO workforce arsenic of Thursday (October 30, 2025) afternoon, predetermination officials achieved their purpose of appointing astatine slightest 1 BLO per polling booth, sources astatine the Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau said. Each polling booth caters to astir 950 to 1,000 electors, arsenic of October 28.
Special camps
Special camps were being held to assistance electors successful the districts deed by floods recently, namely, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Alipurduar, sources astatine the Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau said. The territory administrations from these regions person truthful acold reported nary setbacks successful the availability of documents among the radical for the SIR process, they said.
Certain BLOs being appointed were straight oregon indirectly affiliated to West Bengal’s ruling dispensation, the Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Suvendu Adhikari alleged connected Wednesday.
“We support receiving complaints astir the assignment of BLOs. Every ailment is being heard, verified, and acted upon, if it’s a lawsuit of proven governmental affiliation,” sources astatine the Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau said.
