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A schoolhouse teacher moving arsenic a Booth Level Officer (BLO) for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls successful Gujarat's Mehsana territory died of a bosom onslaught during the aboriginal hours of Friday (November 28, 2025), a constabulary authoritative said.
While the absorption Congress and teachers' national linked the BLO's decease to excessive enactment unit and deficiency of facilities, constabulary denied the allegations.
"Dinesh Raval (50), a nonmigratory of Sudasana village, died of a bosom onslaught successful his location successful the intervening nighttime of Thursday and Friday. He was a teacher successful a authorities superior schoolhouse successful the colony and was precocious made BLO for carrying retired SIR," Satlasana constabulary presumption sub inspector Udaysinh Zala said.
"He was rushed to a authorities infirmary successful Vadnagar aft his wellness deteriorated astatine his home. The station mortem study enactment the origin of decease arsenic bosom attack. Neither his household nor his colleagues person made immoderate allegations against anyone truthful far," Mr. Zala added.
Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi, however, alleged BLOs are nether immense unit to decorativeness the assigned enactment successful time.
President of Gujarat State Primary Teacher Association, Digvijaysinh Jadeja, said helium came to cognize from different teachers that Raval was nether unit owed to BLO related work.
"I impulse the authorities to find an alternate due to the fact that teachers who are deployed arsenic BLOs are nether immense pressure. They person to enactment arsenic teachers and besides arsenic BLOs the full year. Some are moving overnight to decorativeness the task," said Mr. Jadeja.
On November 20, Rameshbhai Parmar, a schoolhouse teacher moving arsenic a Block Level Officer (BLO) successful Gujarat's Kheda district, died of a bosom attack, with his household attributing his decease to "excessive enactment pressure" linked to the ongoing SIR.
On the adjacent day, Arvind Vadher, a schoolhouse teacher deployed to enactment arsenic BLO allegedly ended his beingness successful Gujarat's Gir Somnath district. His household claimed helium near a enactment citing "mental accent and exhaustion" from SIR work.
SIR is presently underway successful 12 states and Union territories.
