over 700 UP schoolteachers who died the same way after being on duty in the panchayat polls. PARI has the full list which now totals 713 – 540 men and 173 women teachers – with the toll still mounting. schoolteachers confirmed that they should show up for duty on May 2 – counting day in Uttar Pradesh’s panchayat polls. UP government said election work cannot be cancelled. And that the authorities might even file an FIR against him if teachers did not report for duty. The protests of the teachers and their unions against this form of duty, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, were ignored.
— source ruralindiaonline.org | May 10, 2021