SIR exercise Phase-2: BJP delegation visits Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer

A BJP delegation, led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, visited the bureau of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) successful Kolkata connected Monday (December 1, 2025), triggering large protests by members of a Booth Level Officer (BLO) forum, who person been demonstrating determination implicit alleged excessive workload during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, a elder serviceman said.

As Mr. Adhikari, accompanied by respective BJP MLAs, arrived astatine the CEO's bureau to conscionable officials, protesting members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee started shouting slogans and tried to breach constabulary barricades, helium said.

They person been demanding alleviation from "excessive workload" by extending the SIR deadline by different 2 months and compensation for the adjacent of kin of deceased BLOs.

The protests continued adjacent arsenic Mr. Adhikari and different BJP MLAs entered the bureau to conscionable Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal and Special Roll Observer Subrata Gupta.

Officials said the BJP delegation was scheduled to rise concerns related to the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful the State.