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flag India’s voter roll update causes worker deaths amid grueling hours and no pay, with election commission denying links.

flag India’s Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls, affecting over 500 million voters across 12 states, has drawn alarm as booth-level officers—mostly schoolteachers and government staff—report working 14 to 15 hours daily with minimal pay and no rest. flag At least a dozen BLOs have died under circumstances linked by families to election-related stress, including alleged suicides and heart attacks. flag The Election Commission has not responded to inquiries and dismissed claims of a connection as politically motivated, despite extended deadlines and widespread concerns over worker safety and data accuracy.

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