New Delhi, May 3 -- The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday assured the Supreme Court that state government representatives would be part of the vote counting process in West Bengal, prompting the top court to dismiss a plea by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on counting personnel. A special bench of justices PS Narasimha and Joymalya Bagchi said the poll panel's April 13 circular, which provides for a mix of central and state government employees in the counting process on May 4, was not contrary to law. It added that EC has the discretion to appoint counting personnel from either pool, dismissing the TMC's apprehension of bias. The circular says that "at least one among the counting supervisor and counting assistant at each counting table s...