Overview
- Training for 80,861 Booth Level Officers started statewide and runs through November 3, covering the new BLO mobile app and handling of enumeration forms.
- Door‑to‑door voter verification is scheduled for November 4 to December 4, with forms to be distributed and collected during this period.
- A section of BLOs protested over lack of official duty documentation and safety guarantees, with some warning they may abstain without assurances.
- Election officials said security for BLOs is being coordinated with West Bengal police and that central forces will not be deployed during training.
- The Trinamool Congress and BJP filed cross‑complaints alleging intimidation of BLOs, TMC leaders plan a Kolkata rally on November 4, and the EC says a draft roll will be published on December 9 with a separate list of incomplete or unsubmitted forms.