LUCKNOW, Nov. 28 -- Uttar Pradesh Congress on Thursday took out a protest march against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state even as it demanded a judicial probe into the deaths of BLOs and other government staff who were engaged in the SIR work. The Congress also demanded extension of SIR deadline keeping in view the population of Uttar Pradesh.

Youth Congress workers took out the march from the party office but were detained by police before reaching the office of UP chief electoral officer Navdeep Rinwa. "The BLOs and other government staff are being pressured to strike out names of voters on the basis of their caste/religion. This has led to suicide or deaths due to heart attacks or haemorrhage," UP Co...