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The Office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer has issued amusement origin announcement to astir 1,000 Booth-Level Officers (BLOs) for alleged non-compliance with election-related directives nether the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
They person allegedly failed to registry their names arsenic BLOs connected a designated portal contempt repeated requests from the Electoral Registration Officer concerned. The BLOs person besides been directed to reply wrong 72 hours of receiving their notice.
The improvement assumes value arsenic preparations for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rotation are owed successful the State. In the lawsuit of ‘mapping’, the elector database published successful 2002 is being compared with the latest published elector list, sources successful the Election Commission of India (ECI) said.
On Wednesday (October 22, 2025), the ECI held a gathering with the Chief Electoral Officers of each the States and Union Territories successful Delhi. West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal was among those who participated successful the meeting.
The BLOs who person refused to enactment successful the electoral process person cited information reasons.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has raised objections. The Chief Electoral Officer’s bureau had nary authorization to contented specified notices due to the fact that the ECI’s authorization lone came into the representation aft the exemplary codification of behaviour was successful place, the TMC enactment said.
The BLOs were frightened due to the fact that of the ruling party’s “intimidation politics”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enactment alleged.
The State BJP enactment has directed the party’s fertile and record to guarantee that the impending SIR is simply a success. In a virtual meeting, West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya told enactment leaders that if they did not enactment tirelessly to guarantee a palmy SIR, air-conditioned rooms and beauteous enactment offices would nary longer beryllium successful the future.
The ECI is readying to adhd astir 14,000 caller polling booths amidst the SIR successful West Bengal, and the BJP faces a shortage of Booth Level Agents (BLAs). There are astir 80,000 polling booths successful the State.
While BJP leaders claimed determination would beryllium nary Assembly predetermination successful the State if the SIR was not carried retired properly, the TMC has warned of monolithic protests if the names of morganatic voters were struck disconnected from the State’s elector list.
The adjacent West Bengal Assembly predetermination is owed successful 2026.
