New Delhi, May 2 -- Allegations of electoral malpractice continued to be fired back and forth in West Bengal following the conclusion of polling, with Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sudhanshu Trivedi claiming on Saturday that it is the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) that is facing a trust deficit due to repeatedly approaching the court over unsubstantiated claims on constitutional bodies.

Trivedi expressed happiness over the Supreme Court declining today to intervene in the Election Commission of India (ECI) deciding to only deploy central government employees for vote-counting supervising duties in West Bengal.

"In over ten years, TMC has gone to court atleast 80 times regarding various orders, and every time they have gotten rejected....