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The conveyance of Election Commission of India's (ECI) peculiar rotation perceiver (SRO), C. Murugan, was damaged aft an agitating assemblage gheraoed the canvass authoritative connected Monday (December 29, 2025) during his sojourn to an SIR proceeding centre astatine Magrahat successful South 24 Parganas territory of West Bengal, an ECI authoritative said.
The agitators, mostly women, blocked the exit way of the SRO's conveyance and thumped connected the car bonnet and model glasses with constabulary unit desperately trying to get the protestors retired of the mode by forming a cordon, according to a video of the incident, shared by a root successful the ECI.
The doorway grip connected the driver's broadside of the car was aboriginal recovered successful a astir ripped disconnected State.
PTI, however, did not verify the authenticity of the video.
Mr. Murugan was archetypal gheraoed by the agitators erstwhile helium reached Shirakol High School, the venue for the ongoing hearing, wherever protestors alleged "unplanned implementation" of the SIR workout wherever ill, aged and large electors person been "forced to appear" for the proceeding sessions.
Eyewitness accounts revealed that a radical of section protestors, led by the TMC-run Zilla Parishad president Mujibar Rahaman Mollah, gheraoed the peculiar perceiver and demanded that the party's Booth Level Agents-2 (BLA2) beryllium allowed introduction astatine the proceeding sessions.
"It wasn't a governmental agitation. It was a protestation of mean people, radical with carnal disabilities, sickness, aged indisposed citizens and adjacent large women, who are being tortured by the ECI successful the sanction of conducting hearings.
"I was lone contiguous to enactment their demands and besides inquire that our BLAs beryllium allowed to stay astatine the hearings to guarantee valid voters don't get disqualified," Mr. Rahaman said.
The SRO faced nationalist ire aboriginal with his conveyance getting targeted by locals portion helium was trying to permission an adjacent proceeding venue.
"I americium present to bash a occupation assigned to maine by the Election Commission, and I volition implicit that task, nary substance the attempted disruptions," the IAS serviceman aboriginal said.
Asked whether the serviceman apprehended information concerns, Mr. Murugan said, "That volition beryllium for the medication to decide." A Commission root maintained that requests for peculiar constabulary extortion for the rotation perceiver went unheeded connected the grounds.
"We don't request this SIR. We don't privation this Commission to torture us. We privation wealth for the 100-days enactment and agrarian lodging which the cardinal authorities has stopped paying," a protesting pistillate said.
This wasn't the archetypal clip that the peculiar rotation perceiver faced nationalist absorption portion trying to oversee the ongoing SIR exercise. In 2 erstwhile occasions, successful Falta successful South 24 Parganas and again astatine Haldarpara successful Howrah district, the serviceman faced gherao agitations from resisting locals.
A elder authoritative astatine the bureau of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that a elaborate study connected Monday's (December 29, 2025) incidental would beryllium sought from the SRO and forwarded to the Election Commission.
