A 51-year-old booth-level officer (BLO) from West Bengal’s Nadia district became the second BLO in the state to die by suicide within three days, intensifying concerns over the heavy workload and mounting pressure on government employees engaged in the Election Commission’s (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.

Rinku Tarafdar, a para-teacher from Krishnanagar, was found hanging at her home on Friday night. She left behind a two-page suicide note in Bengali, blaming the EC for “inhuman work pressure” and writing that she “wanted to live” but feared the “administrative fallout” of not completing her tasks.

“I do not support any political party. I am a very ordinary person. But I cannot handle this inhuman work pressure,” she wrote, adding that despite meagre pay she was

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