Kolkata: As another man died by suicide in West Bengal on Wednesday, allegedly due to fear of being disenfranchised, the ruling Trinamool Congress alleged that the anxiety over the Special Intensive Review of the electoral rolls in the state claimed at least nine lives so far.

The Election Commission deployed 80,681Booth Level Officers to conduct the SIR of the electoral rolls in the 294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal and they distributed more than 84 lakh enumeration forms till 4 pm on Wednesday – the second day of the house-to-house survey.

A day after Chief Minister and the Trinamool Congress Chief, Mamata Banerjee, led a TMC protest march in Kolkata, accusing the Election Commission and the Bharatiya Janata Party of creating a fear psychosis with the SIR of the electoral roll

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