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West Bengal Assembly polls: Calcutta High Court rejects TMC’s challenge to ECI order on deploying central staff in vote counting

The Indian Express·Ashish Shaji·about 1 month ago
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Outside the EVM strong room at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Jorasanko Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday. (Express photo by Partha Paul) Calcutta High Court news: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress ( TMC ) challenging the deployment of central government and PSU employees as counting supervisors and assistants in the West Bengal assembly elections , holding that the decision falls within the domain of the Election Commission and does not suffer from any illegality. Justice Krishna Rao rejected the plea, which had assailed a communication issued by the additional chief electoral officer mandating that at least one among the counting supervisor or counting assistant at each counting table be a central government or central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employee. Justice Krishna Rao heard the matter on April 30.…

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