India, Dec. 5 -- There was quite a commotion outside the office of the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) when a large section of the Trinamool Congress-backed booth-level officers - engaged in the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on Thursday, staged a restive demonstration demanding extension of the submission of enumeration forms.
A group of 400 strong officials of the BLO Protection Committee shouted slogans against the Election Commission of India (ECI) and breached the barricades trying to enter the CEO's office, where they were stopped by the security forces, forcing them to stage a sit-in.
Accompanied by the family members of the BLOs who had died during the SIR, they complained, "We have been running against ti...