Written by Tanusree BoseNovember 2, 2025 03:26 PM IST 2 min readElection Commission officials during a training session for Booth Level Officers (BLOs) for the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal on Nov 1 (PTI Photo)With the training of booth-level officers (BLO) for the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists underway in West Bengal, the BJP has said that it has finalised the names of more than 50,000 people to be deployed as booth-level agents (BLA-2s) for the exercise.According to sources in the State Election Commission, all political parties have submitted a preliminary list of BLAs. In a list dated October 30, the BJP submitted the names of 7,912 people for deployment as BLA-2s. BLA-2s help BLOs at the booth level as shadow partners.A senior BJP leader said there was still time left as the door-to-door visits by enumerators would start on November 4. “We will be giving more names. All the data is yet to be uploaded. Data from the districts also have to be uploaded,” he said.According to BJP sources, the party plans to submit over 50,000 BLA-2 names and has decided to give the names of 10,000-11,000 BLA names. In total, the party will submit close to 61,000 names for 61,000 booths.Speaking to The Indian Express, BJP general secretary Jagannath Chattopadhyay said, “The SIR is a very important process. We will try to have BLAs in the maximum number of booths.”Earlier, there were 80,681 booths for the BJP in the state. After the reorganisation, it now has 94,497 booths. There are questions as to whether the BJP will have BLA-2s in Muslim-dominated booths.“In certain areas, especially minority-dominated areas, having agents is a problem. In many cases, we were not able to find agents for the SIR work initially in some areas,” said a senior BJP leader .Story continues below this adAccording to sources, the BJP will also use the party app to track the entire exercise through BLA-2s.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:West Bengal