With the Election Commission conducting the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, the CPI (M), which failed to win a single seat in the last Assembly elections, is keen on using the exercise to rejuvenate the party ahead of next year’s state polls.

Besides helping people to fill up their SIR enumeration forms and deputing a significant number of Booth Level Agents (BLAs), the party on Tuesday announced to hold a 1,000-km ‘Bangla Bachao Yatra’ (Save Bengal March) from November 29.

The 19-day yatra, which will be led by senior party leaders, including Md Salim, Sujan Chakraborty, will begin from Tufanganj in Cooch Behar district in north Bengal and criss-cross 11 districts before concluding at Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas on December 17.

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