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TMC, BJP spar after 1 more BLO dies by suicide in Bengal
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|November 23, 2025
AS the countdown for assembly polls scheduled in April-May next year begins, Trinamool Congress and BJP are involved in yet another spat over the suicide of another BLO in Bengal.
The ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that 34 people, including BLOs, have died during the ongoing SIR exercise which began on November 4, and demanded that the ECI take responsibility for these deaths. Hours after the death of the BLO Rinku Tarafdar, a 53-year-old para teacher of a local school in Krishnagar in Nadia district on Saturday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee once again lashed out at the Election Commission of India (ECI. "Rink
This story is from the November 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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