West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the Election Commission over the suicide of a tribal booth level officer at Mal, Jalpaiguri, due to alleged pressure of the ongoing special intensive revision exercise in the state.

“Deeply shocked and saddened. Today again, we lost a Booth Level Officer in Mal, Jalpaiguri — Smt Shanti Muni Ekka, a tribal lady, an anganwadi worker, who took her own life under the unbearable pressure of the ongoing SIR work,” she said in a strongly-worded post on X.

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The Bengal CM claimed that 28 people have lost their lives since the controversial SIR exercise began. She said that some of them died “due to fear and uncertainty, others due to stress and overload.”

Holding the poll panel responsible for these deaths, she alleged

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