West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday urged the Election Commission to suspend the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in the state, saying “the human cost of this mismanagement is now unbearable”, ANI reported.

Banerjee in a letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said that the process had reached an “alarming” and “dangerous” stage, emphasising that the manner in which it was being carried out was unplanned, chaotic, and putting citizens and officials at risk.

The chief minister’s appeal followed her earlier request to suspend the exercise after booth level officers in the state died by suicide allegedly due to work pressure.

Banerjee accused the office of the West Bengal chief electoral officer of intimidating the booth level officers, A

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