Overview
- Booth Level Officers in Kolkata marched to the West Bengal CEO’s office and clashed with police over what they called inhuman workloads, citing illnesses and multiple reported deaths during the Special Intensive Revision.
- West Bengal CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal sought police and postmortem reports on BLO deaths, praised frontline work, issued show-cause notices to seven BLOs, and moved to deploy electoral roll observers to monitor lapses in digitisation.
- Election Commission data showed 99.02% of enumeration forms distributed across 12 states and UTs by November 23 but only 39.29% digitised, with house-to-house work running through December 4 and draft rolls due December 9.
- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a fresh letter questioning plans to outsource 1,000 data-entry operators and 50 software developers and flagged other process concerns in the state’s revision drive.
- A Supreme Court hearing on challenges to the SIR, including MP Thol Thirumavalavan’s petition from Tamil Nadu, is listed for November 26, as EC sources told News18 that around 10 lakh names in West Bengal may be flagged for removal in draft lists.