4 more teachers die after UP poll duty: Unions | India News – Times of India

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Four more teachers died of Covid-19 on Thursday after doing panchayat poll duty in Bijnor, taking the toll to 12 in the district, said teachers’ unions, even as three pradhan candidates in the Uttar Pradesh rural polls and the son of a panchayat member candidate died within 24 hours, with at least two succumbing to Covid.
Teachers’ unions say 577 teachers have died due to Covid after doing duty in the four-phase panchayat polls. Uttar Pradesh Prathamik Shikshak Sangh said this figure rose to 702 on Thursday.
Sudhir Kumar, district president of Uttar Pradesh Primary Teachers Association, said, “Panchayat polls have played a key role in the dramatic rise in Covid-19 cases in the state. Government employees got infected while discharging poll duties.”
Those seeking to skip poll duty got FIR threats: Kin of deceased
MLC (Bareilly region) Hari Singh Dhillon has written to UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath to postpone election results until the Covid situation improves. He has also demanded monetary compensation for the families of the dead teachers.
Meanwhile, in Mathura, pradhan candidate Ranveer Chaudhary died during the elections on Thursday. In Raya block, pradhan candidate Lalita Devi, 40, from Koyal village died on Wednesday night, following which district authorities postponed the polling. However, the cause of her death was not known till the filing of this report. Kaushal Kumar, another candidate, succumbed to Covid on Thursday, confirmed Civil Lines circle officer Anil Samaniya. Avtar Tomar, 36, an engineer at NTPC Dadri and son of a panchayat member candidate Sikandar Singh from BJP, died of Covid in Mathura on Wednesday. In Shahjahanpur, 47-year-old sanitation worker Somaran Lal, who was deployed on panchayat election duty, died at a polling station on Thursday.
His brother, Suraj Pal, told TOI, “My brother was healthy and he never wanted to go for duty because of Covid. But, staff members who wanted to skip the duty were threatened with FIR.” Shahjahanpur DM Indra Vikram Singh said, “He was not Covid positive and had died of heart attack. The autopsy confirmed the same.”

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