Election Commission of India

Kolkata: The Election Commission of India has launched a crackdown against booth-level officers (BLOs) over the alleged gross irregularities and violations of prescribed norms related to enumeration forms for the Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal.

To begin with, sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, and the commission have registered FIRs against eight BLAs for allegedly interfering in the distribution of enumeration forms, taking possession of the forms from BLOs, and distributing them themselves.

At the same time, the commission has slapped showcause notices to eight BLOs who have reportedly adopted the shortcut process of distributing the enumeration forms from a particular place, violating the commission-pr

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