AGRA, Dec. 4 -- Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak on Thursday said that the Election Commission was looking into the matter of recent deaths of booth level officers (BLOs) and that the government was standing with the aggrieved families.

He assured that any specific complaint of death due to work load during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls will be looked into. Pathak was talking to reporters in Hathras where he also addressed party workers.

"The Election Commission is looking into the matter and the government stands with families of the BLOs who have died," he said in reply to a question.

There have been cases of deaths of the BLOs engaged in the SIR all over Uttar Pradesh. A 45-year-old ...