The Election Commission had mandated that at least one person at every counting table—specifically the counting supervisor—should be a Central Government or PSU official

The Election Commission had mandated that at least one person at every counting table—specifically the counting supervisor—should be a Central Government or PSU official

The Election Commission had mandated that at least one person at every counting table—specifically the counting supervisor—should be a Central Government or PSU official

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission's (EC) decision to deploy only Central Government and Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employees as supervisors for the vote counting on May 4.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party has now urged the apex court to include state government employees to help supervise vote counting in West Bengal.

(More details are awaited.)