Big Blow to Mamata Banerjee Ahead of Bengal Results: What SC Said On Plea Opposing Central Staff For Counting

The Supreme Court of India on Saturday held a special bench hearing on a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) challenging a Calcutta High Court order related to vote counting arrangements in the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026. The High Court’s decision which allowed only Central government and Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employees to work as counting supervisors created problems for maintaining fairness and transparency according to the plea.

Supreme Court has commenced its special bench hearing on a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) party against Calcutta High Court order rejecting its plea that challenged the deployment of only Central government and PSU (Public Sector Undertaking) employees as… pic.twitter.com/IlUwQA4FdS

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The court session featured Election Commission of India (ECI) evidence which showed the commission would obey its April 13 circular. The TMC believes the circular permits State government workers to supervise vote counting activities together with Central government employees. The party argued that excluding State personnel could create apprehensions about neutrality in the counting process.

The Supreme Court decided to avoid issuing new orders for the case. The ECI lawyer repeated that all circular requirements from the ongoing court case would be enacted by the court. The court used this statement to reject the plea because the poll body had assured them that counting would follow established guidelines.

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