Kolkata, Nov 25: A section of booth-level officers spent the entire night inside the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s office, refusing to leave until CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal met them and accepted their charter of demands, as their protest over “unmanageable workload” during the ongoing SIR escalated sharply.
Several of them have been demonstrating there since Monday evening, continuing a standoff that began after their march from College Square in north Kolkata to BBD Bag in the central part of the city, where the CEO’s office is located.
The overnight sit-in by members of the BLO Adhikar Raksha Committee began on Monday and stretched into Tuesday morning, with protesters insisting they would not withdraw until Agarwal personally received their deputation. The agitation was called to highlight what they termed “excessive work pressure” and “inhuman workloads” under the SIR process. (PTI)
