SC to hear TMC’s plea today over staff for counting votes

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hold a special sitting to hear a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress challenging a Calcutta high court order that dismissed their petition against the Election Commission's directive to deploy central government and PSU employees for counting votes in the West Bengal Assembly election. The high court had dismissed the AITC's petition, saying there was no illegality in the poll panel's decision to appoint counting supervisors and assistants from central government and PSU employees.