Overview
- Banerjee has formally written to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar seeking an immediate stop to the Special Intensive Revision, calling it unplanned, coercive and dangerous, and later shared the letter on X.
- Her letter cites the alleged suicide of Booth-Level Officer Shanti Muni Ekka in Jalpaiguri and warns that compressed timelines, server failures and poor training risk flawed uploads and disenfranchisement.
- Ekka’s husband has filed an FIR naming the Election Commission, while the EC has asked the Jalpaiguri district magistrate for a report on the death.
- Reports from Gujarat and Rajasthan describe additional deaths and health crises that families link to SIR workload, and a Hooghly BLO in West Bengal was relieved after a paralysis diagnosis.
- The BJP dismisses Banerjee’s charges as politicising the process and undermining the poll body, and a fuller public response from the Election Commission was not present in the coverage.