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Supreme Court to hear today TMC plea against EC directive on counting supervisors

The Indian Express·Express News Service·about 1 month ago
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Police and security personnel stand guard outside a strong room in Kolkata’s Bhabanipur on Friday. (PTI) The Supreme Court will hear on Saturday a plea filed by Trinamool Congress (TMC) challenging a Calcutta High Court order that dismissed a petition against the Election Commission of India decision to deploy Central government and PSU employees as counting supervisors and assistants for counting the votes on May 4. A bench of Justices P V Narasimha and Joymalya Bagchi will hear the TMC appeal challenging the April 30 Calcutta High Court order. The party had challenged a communication issued by the additional chief electoral officer on April 30 mandating that at least one among the counting supervisors or counting assistants at each counting table be a Central government or Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employee. The TMC had argued that it was issued without any jurisdiction.…

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