India, May 1 -- The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking the inclusion of West Bengal state government employees for appointment as counting supervisors for the West Bengal assembly elections.

The Calcutta High Court had on Thursday rejected TMC's plea challenging the Election Commission's decision to deploy only Central government and Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) employees as supervisors during the vote counting to be held on May 4.

According to the EC order issued through the West Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO), at least one person at every counting table-specifically the counting supervisor-should be a Central Government or PSU official.

When the TMC challenged the order in ...