Kolkata: The West Bengal unit of the BJP has requested the Election Commission of India (ECI) to initiate an annulment of the mass bureaucratic reshuffle in the state ordered by the Mamata Banerjee government on Monday afternoon.

The announcement for the mass reshuffle, which includes District Magistrates, Additional District Magistrates, Sub-Division Officers, and Block Development Officers, was made just a couple of hours before the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, announced the dates of the Special Intensive Revision (SIRs) for 12 states in the country, including West Bengal, which is going for Assembly polls next year.

Shortly after the dates of SIR for these 12 states were announced, the West Bengal unit of the BJP forwarded a communication to the CEC and the two El

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