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P ag e s:
CHAPTER-I
Books and a r t i c l e s , 4 - 1 2
CHAPTER-II
Notes on judic ia l decisionsin election matters. 13 - 27
CHAPTER-I11
Cases* of• d i squa l i f i ca t i ons . 28 - 40
CHAPTER-IV ' . . . • •
Disposal of e lect ion p e t i t i o n s . ' 4 1 - 5 1
CH.APTE3-V
Vacancy statements* 52 - 63
CHAPTER-VI - .
Bye-elections to the Legis lat ive ,
Assemblies. • . 6 4 - 7 0
CHAPTER-VII • . . - - . • •
Imposit ion of President'.s Rulein Tamil Nadu. . 7 1 - 7 2
CHAPTER-VIII.
Dissolut ion of APHLC and Registrat ionof A l l Party H i l l Leaders' Conference(Armison !*lar ak Group). - 7 3 - 8 2
CHAPTER-IX
Press reports on elections andpol i t ical systems of foreigncountries and other matters ofinterest. 83 - gg
P.T.O.-
CHAPTER-X
Re-delimitab ion of counci l const i tuencias 91 - 93in tha State of Karnataka.
CHAPTER-XI
V is i t of foreign d ign i ta r ies . 94
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dtff mr^rt % 1D2 - 116
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The Documentation is intended to acquaint tha
officers and staff of the Commission and ths Chief
Electoral Officers and their staff uith articles on
current political issues published in periodicals/
newspapers, received in the Commission's Library,
development in the field of electoral 1au and procedure,
progress in the disposal of election petitions and
judicial decisions thereon, Commission's decisions on
questions as to disqualification of members to either
House of Parliament or of the State Legislatures and
bye-elections to both the Houses of Parliament and
State Legislatures.
Besides the usual chapters, this issue also contains
the following special chapters:
(i) Bye-elections to the Legislative Assemblies. "'*'
( i i ) Imposition of Prosident's Rule in Tamil Nadu.
(iii)Re-delimitation of council constituencies in theState of Karnataka.
(iv) Visit of foreign dignitaries.
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CHAPTER - I
BOOKS AND ARTICLES :
A number of a r t i c l e s on current p o l i t i c a l issuesv—
and other matters of in terest ' appeared i n var ious
periodicals/newspapers which uare received i n the
Commission's L ibrary during the.month o f 3anuary,1988.
A l i s t of such a r t i c l e s as are considered to be o f
special interest is given in tha following pages.
LIST OF /ARTICLES
TITLEAUTHOR ,
A-FOREIGN ELECTIONS ANQ POLITICS:
REFERENCE
(a) f- laqazines:
Burger,William andFar t i n , Bradley.
Heuitt , B i l l andVokey, Richard
(b) Neuspaper3:
Houe, RussellUarran.
Editor ia l
Katoch,G.C.
Katoch, G.C.
Editorial
Roh's Big Win.
On the outcome of SouthKorean presidentialelection.
A Uild and WoollyCampaign.
On the pre-poll violencein the Philippines.
Neusueek:January 4,1988, pp.10-15.
Neusueek: January 11*1938, p.14.
Change In South Korea:Charismatic General InCivvies.
Regarding the presidentialelection in South Korea.
Farce in Ha i t i .
On the forthcomingpresidential electionscheduled for January 17,
India's Ness In Lanka - IRushing Uhere OthersFeared To Tread.
India's riess In Lanka - I ITime To Strike A Deal UithLTTE
Farce In Ha i t i .
Regarding the recentelections in Ha i t i .
The'Statesman: Dalhi;January 4,1983,p.6.
The Hindustan Times:Neu Delhi; January 7,198S, p.6.
The Statesman: Delhi,January 29,1938,p.6.
The Statesman: Delhi;January 30,1938,p.6.
The Statesman: Delhi;January 30,1988,p.6.
B-INDIAN ELECTIONS A NO POLITICS:
(a) Magazines: ' . • •
Akbar,n.J. A uhale of a time.
The author says that it isthe paraphernelia of the •holiday rather than theholiday itself uhich is theissue for the poor....And itis this image that Shri RajivGandhi must do everything tochange befcre the elections.
Sunday:January 17-23,1908,pp.6-7.
contd....
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AUTHOR
Anita Pratap.
Anita Pratap.
Banerjee>Indraniland Bagchi,Rajiv.
Chaadhuri,K.C.
Dasgupta,S.R.
Gosuami,Sabita*
TITLE
Inclining Towards Unity
On the efforts of theopposition party's forunity uith the objectof an opposition frontthat could- emerge as analternative to Shxi RajivGandhi's government.
Karnataka:A Ueb of hisoun making.
The author analyses thefive years of Janataparty's rule in Karnataka.
The Left challenge.
The author's say that
REFERENCE
India Today:January 16-31,1988, p.42. .
India Today:January 16-31,1988, pp.38-41.
Sunday:January 17-23,1938, pp.20-25.
the Leftists are fcr f i r s ttima in years, challengingthe Congress (I) at theCentre. Rather than over-confidence the move reflectsthe Left's shrewd calcu-lations.
*Tripura:Congress(i)-running to lose.
Surya India:January 1988,-p.49.
*Left Front uins again. Blitz:3anuary 30,1988,
•Regarding the forthcoming P # „%r ,-.-;-_• assembly elections in • ' - ' ' •
Tripura. • .
Kumar,KuIdeeP andSarin,Ritu.
Kumar,Sunil.
S t i f f challenge toCongress(l).
On the forthcomingassembly elections indeghalaya.
The dilemma of ourpol i t ica l parties.
Blitz:January 30,1988,p.8.
j
Sunday:January 17-23,1988,pp.56-59.
IUI:January 24-30,Rough Weather.The uriter reports on the 1988,PP.28-29.prospects in the nextmonth's assembly electionsin Tripura and Pieghalaya.
contd . . . . .
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AUTHOR
Piirchandani,Rajan.
TITLE REFERENCE
P"i.tra,Sumit.
nitra,Sumit &others.
Raghavan, A.
Rahul Dev.
Hidterm Poll Surya India:3anuary 1988,Economic factors say YesI " pp.15-17.
The author juxtaposesprevailing economic factorsuith those l ikely to obtaina year later. His conclu-sion is that Shri Rajivstands to make a long termgain uith a snap pol l by
suffering a short term lossof a record majority of 412.
L'ives and lovers.
Regarding the infightingin AIADfK after the deathof Shri Fl.G.Ramachandran.
Sunday:January 17-23,1988,pp.26-31.
The Void Aftar. Sunday:January 3-9,1988,
Uith the death of Shri F).G.PP'28""40'Ramachandran, Chief flinisterTamil Nadu, the authorswrite on whether the AIAQT'IKsp l i t over the successionissue.
Can Cong (I ) Exploit ThsCrises?
The author writes whetherthe Congress(l)•can exploitthe crises as CppositionStates are in disarray.
Blitz:3anuary 16,1988,p.7.
Nid-term poll in March?The author discusses thepossibi l i ty of a mid-termpo l l .
Singh,Uikramjit ' Battle for Allahabad.
Surya India:January 1988,pp.8-14.
The author says that bye-election to the AllahabadParliamentary Constituencymay bacome a'testing ground1.The verdict there couldpossibly indicate whichway the electorate w i l lsuing in future hustingsin the Hindi heartland.
Surya India:3anuary 1988,pp.18-19.
contd.•••
AUTHOR
Venkatraraani,S.H.
(b)Newspapers:
Sen,Amartya
Gangal,S.L".
Subramaniam.Ka Naa
Subrananiam,Ka Naa
Pubby,Vipin
RE FERE MCE
I n d i a Today:3anuary 1 6 - 3 1 ,1988, p p . 5 6 - 5 8 .
Tamil Nadu:A NoviceTakes Charge.
The author guesseswhether Mrs.JanakiRamachandran cansurvive long as Chief•Minister of Tamil Nadu.
Issues Of Development: The S ta tesman :De lh i ,L e f t F r o n t ' s Successes January 1 ,1988 ,p .6 .And F a i l u r e s .
Centre-Stats t iesFederalism only inname.
The Hindustan Times:New D/elhi;3anuary 2,1988, p. 11.- -
I-Factors Behind NGR's The Times of India:Uhatishrna. Neu Delhi;January 1,
1988,p.6.
No Image Ever ForTamils As f'CR-II.
The Times o_f India:Neu Delhij-january 2,1988,p«6.
Naoaland Nausletter Indian Express: Neu Delhi;U"'." succumbs to pressure- January 4,1988, p.6.
Regarding the po l i t i ca l -situation in Nagalandafter the Congress(l)victory in Assembly , i - •Elections.
Singh,S.Nihal
Edi tor ia l
Edi tor ia l
Edi tor ia l
Charisma In Pol i t ics : The Times of India: .Performance Not c r i t i c a l . Neu Delhi,January 5,
1 9 8 8 , p . 6 .Cri Shri I'l.G.Raniachandranand his popularity asand actor as ue l l aschief minister of TamilNadu.
•V.fl.JanaKi's mandate. Patriot:Neu Delhi;January 5,1988,p.4.
*Tamil Nadu succession. National, Herald:NeuDelhi;January 5,1988,p.6.
•Uneniviable prospect. Indian Express:Neu Delhi;
•Regarding the induction January 5,1988,P.6.of i-irs.U. N.JanaKi as j ;
the post of ChiefMinister of Ta»iii Nadu.
contd•.•• i
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AUTHOR TITLE REFERENCE
Namboodripad ,E.PI.S.
Editorial
Chakravarty,Sujit Kumar.
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Editor ial
Chakravartty,Nikh i l .
Sen,D.
On the national alternative.Indian Express:Neu Delhi;3anuary 5»1988,p.6.
Loans For Votes.
Tf«V extremism to dominateTripura election campaign.
Purge In Haryana
Regarding the resignation
The StatesmanrOelhi;January 6,1988,p.6.
Patriot:Neu Delhi;January 7,1988,p.5.
The Statesman:Jelhi;January 8,1988,p,6.
of a l l the Haryana ministers.
*'u/ill patchwork do?
*Fi l l ing the void.
Indian Express:Neu0elhi;3anuary 8,1988,p.6.
National Herald:NeuDelhi;3anuary 8,1988,
•Regarding the selection of p.6,f'lrs.J anaki Ramachandran asChief Minister of TamilNadu.
'Son* stroke In Haryana.
The Rajiv Raj.
This is a comment onRajiv Gandhi's policlea.
The Hindustan Times:Neu Qelni;January 9,1988,p.11.
The Times of India(Sunday Revieu):Neu Delhi;january 10,1988,p.1.
From Cong-I to Cong-R.
The Congress today needsmuch more than organisa-t ional elections, uriteBthe author. In fact, uhatis required is the emergenceof a Rajiv Congress uhichu i l l ref lect the PrimePiinister's personality andproject a leadership imagethat is very different fromprevious stereotypes.
The Hindustan Times:(Magazine):^eu Delhi;January 10,1 988,pp.1-2,
c o n t d . . . .
AUTHOR REFEKEWCE
Rane, H .A .
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Virender Kumar
Mulgaokar,S.
Editorial
Chief justices as ActingGovernors:Time to endthis convention.
Haryana resignations.
Regarding resignationsof a l l the ministers ofHaryana cabinet to shoutheir fa i th in the Chiefninister.
•dual In Madras.
*Heirs And Pretendous•Regarding the r i f tbetween the tuo factionsof AIAJFK in Tamil Nadu.
3&K Neusletter:Keepingregional pressure incheck*
Indian £xpress:NeuOelhijJanuary 12.1988,p.6.
Indian ExpresstNeuDelhi; Danuary 12,1988,p.6.
The Hindustan Times:Neu Delhi;3anuary 14,1988,p.11.
The Statesman:Oelhi;January 15,1988fp.6.
Indian Express:Neu0elhi;3anuary 15,1988,p.6.
In 1986 a congress(l) and . -National Conference coa l i -tion government uas formedin J&\ uith a vieu to f ightthe regional, communals :, -. - r . - 'and anti-national forcesin the State. The author ~ ; -writer on uhet.her a • - . :•coalition uas the right uayto go about i t .
Uhen the Government uorks Indian ExpresstNeufaster. Delhi;3 anuary 16,Regarding the performance 1988»P«5»of the Rajiv Gandhigovernment.
Avoiding elections.
The editor says that bypostponing the ZilaParishad elections, Fir.Chavan has lost anotherground to his adversariesin the party.
Indian ExpresstNeuQelhijJanuary 16,1988,p.6.
contd...
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AUTHOR t
Editorial
TITLE
Qesai,Ashok H.
Editorial
Editorial •
Editorial
Editorial
Gupta,K anchan.
Singh,S.Nihal.
Editorial
Editorial
Prabhakaran,G .
Favouring A Son.o . . 1 4 . - NRegarding the resignation 1
of Shri Uevi Lai ' s sons ifrom the Haryana assemblyand Rajya Sabha.
REFERENCE
The Hindustan TimesS0elhi;3anuary 19,
The changing lau;NTRand the "prima facie"case.
•Change i n Rajasthan.
*3oshi quits,
*Flr. Doshi's ouster.
#First In A Series.
Indian ExpresstNeu Oelhi;January 19,1988,p.6.
National HaraldrNeuDeihijJanuary 20,1988,p.6,
Patriot:Meu Delhi;January 20,1988,p.4.
Indian Express:Neu Oelhi;January 20,1988,p.6.
The Statesman:Delhi;•Regarding the resignation -January 2O,1988,P.8.of Rajasthan's ChiefMinister Mr. Harideo 3oshi,
Is Fir. Dubey Invincible? The StatesmantUelhi;Centre's Hobson's Choice January 20,1988,p,8.In Bihar.
Problems 83P Facas:\/.P. The Times of IndiatNeuSingh A Neu Complication. Delhi;3anuary 20,1988,
p . 6 .
The 3oshi Episode. The Times of -India:NeuOn the resignation of - ^lhi;3anuary 20,1988,chief minister of Rajasthar* *Fir. Harideo Joshi,
Mr. Fiathur in the saddle. National Heralri:NeuUelhi;3anuary 21,1985,p.6. " -
Kerala NeualetterImportance of civicelections.
Election Commission'scredibi l i ty .
Patriot:Neu Oelhi;January 22,1988,p.4.
Indian Express:Neu De lh i ;January 26,1988,p.6.
contd.. . .
AUTHOR
Editorial
Editorial
Sorabjea,Soli 3,
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
/
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Kerala civic poll*
•Question of majority.
REFERENCE
Indian Express:Neu Delhi;January 26,1988,p.6.
Ths Hindustan Times:New Qelhi;3anuary 27,198B,p.11.
•Meaning Of Majority In The Times of Inaia'NeuThe Assembly. - 0elhi;3a
niJary 28,1988,p.6.
•Regarding the selection.of the leader of the
AIADTK by the majoritylegislature party.
Orau in Andhra
On the outcome of therecsnt bye-election inAndhra Pradesh,
•Dolt For Marxists.
in Kerqla.
•Oh the recent civicelections in Kerala.
Indian ExpresstNeu Uelhi;Danuary 28,1988,p.6,
The Hindustan .Times*Neu Delhi;3anuary 28,1988,p.11. '
National Herald:Neu Delhi;Danuary 28,1988,p".6.
Combating TNV insurgency.National HeraldtNeu• 0elhi;3anuary 28,1988,
p.6.
*Let the people decide.
•This Is Shameful.
Indian ExpresstNeu Delhi;Danuary 29,1988,p.6i
The Hindustan Times:Neu0elhi;3anuary 29,1988,p . 1 1 .
•Need for fresh mandate. National Herald:Neu Delhi;3anuary 29,1983,p.6'.
•Regarding the uinning ofthe vote of confidence byMrs.Danaki Ramachandran.
Protecting Tripura. The Sunday StatesmantOelhi;
On the Centre's decla- January 31» 1988,p.6.ration of the entire Stateof Tripura as disturbedarea.
Reprieve For Tamil Naciu. The Sunday Statesman:
Regarding the daclarat icn^fA* J e n UarV 3 1 ' 1 S 8 8 'of Pr-Gsioent's rule in p # b *Tamil Nadu0
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CHAPTER-II
NOTES ON JUDICIAL DECISIONS IN ELECTION RATTERS
Under section 106 of the Representation of ths People
Act, 1351, the High Courts are required to send a copy aach
of orders passed by them in election Petitions. Similarly
under section 116, the Supreme Court is required to send a
copy each of the orders passed by it in election appeals.
"Gists of the orders of respective High Courts and the Supreme
Court are published in this chapter uith a uieu to acuainting
readers uith the salient points of these orders.
This issue contains gists of five judgments in election
petitions - one each from the High Courts of Andhra Pradesh,
Haryana, Rajasthan and Punjab and tuo in respect of Patna
High Court. These tuo election petitions uare decided
together by Patna High Court and election of the respondent
uas declared void by it. "
In addition, gist of a decision of the Supreme Court
in Civil Appeal No.4(NCE) of 1987 against the ordsr of
Gauhati High Court in Election Petition No.2 of 1985 is
also given in the follouing pages. The appeal uas dismissed
by the Supreme Court.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ANOHRA PRAOESH
ELECTION PETITION NO.4 OF 1985
Thummalapalli Rulla Reddy . ....Petitioner
Vs.
Pl.Raghuma Reddy ....Respondent
This election petition uas filed by Shri Thummalapalli
Rulla Reddy, an elector^ calling in question the election af
Shri Fl. Raghuma Reddy to the House of the People from
41-Nalgonda parliamentary constituency in the general election
held in December, 1984. ' .'
The petition uas filed on the ground that the respondent
uas disqualified to contest the election because he uas a
government servant in the Agricultural Department and uas thus
holding an office of profit.
The respondent filed a uritten statement denying the
allegation. Nomination papers for the above mentioned election
uere filed on 6.12.1984. On the basis of documentary evidence .
produced in the Court, the High Court noted that the respondent
applied for voluntary retirement on 1.12.1982. The office
gave a reply to him that he uas not eligible fjr sue** retirement
as he had not put in 20 years of qualifying service* On
4.6.1983, he requested the department to accept his resignation
u.e.f. 1.3.1983. On 16.6.1983, his office asked the respondent
to produce tuo surety bonds in the prescribed proforma on a
stamp paper, to take further action in the matter. He furnished
the surety bonds and his resignation uas accepted on 1.3.1983.
The Director of Agricultural Department was also examined as
a witness and ha had testified all the above mentioned facts.
contd...••
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Moreover, some recouaries of dues uere also to be made from
the respondent uhich shoued that the respondent uas not in
service, that is why he uas asked to clear his recoveries
of payment.
In vieu of the above findings, it uas proved that tha
respondent uas not holding an office of profit and uas thus not
disqualified to-contest the election. The petition uas thu3
dismissed uith costs vide High Court's orders dated 9,12.1987.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PATNA, RrtNuHI bENLHELEt-TIOa PETITION N0S.7 & 8 OF 1985(R)
Smt.Fiuktidani Symbrui - Pet i t ioner i n E.P. No.7/85 (R)
Gomeya Pur t i Pet i t ioner i n E.P. No.8/85(R)
Us.
Radhe Munda & others. Respondents.
Both the above mentioned e lec t ion pe t i t ions uere t r i e d
together by the High Court because both c f them re la ted to the •
e lec t ion to the Bihar Legis lat ive Assembly from 295-Chaibasa
Assembly Constituency reserved.for Scheduled Tr ibes. Both
the pet i t ioners - Smt. l^k t idani Sumbrui and Shri Gomaya Pur t i
ca l led i n question the e lect ion of the respondent Shri Radhe
Piunda to the Bihar Legis lat ive Assembly i n the general e lec t ion
held i n Marchf 1985.
I n e lec t ion p e t i t i o n No.8/85(R) i t uas al leged by the
pe t i t i oner Shri Goraeya Purty that one of his nomination papers
uas urongly re jected by the Returning Off icer on the ground
that he uas not a member of Scheduled Tribe as he did not
attach caste c e r t i f i c a t e u i t h the nomination paper. Another
nomination paper proposed by one Shri Lanka Bari uas also
re jected on the ground that the proposer's nafie uas not found
i n the e lec tora l r o l l . I t uas fur ther claimed that the
nomination paper of one Shri Sonaram Nag, uho uas not a member
of Scheduled T r i b e , uas urongly accepted by the Returning
Of f i ce r . The other ground on uhich the e lec t ion of the
returned candidate Shri Radhe Munda i s challenged uas that
he uas not a Munda by caste but he uas 'Ho' by caste uhich
con td . • • • •
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uas evident from his school certificate. Thus he misled voters
by posing himself as Tunda' uhich materially afrected the "
result Of the election. Charges of other corrupt practices
including bribery, incurring of excess expenditure on elsction
campaign, use of official machinery, publication of false statements
in the neuspaper 'Ranchi Express1, large scale rigging of votaa
and commandeering of anti<-social elements uers also alleged
to have been committed by the respondent and his election agents.
Shri G.S.Kang, Deputy Commissioner of Singhbhum and the Returning
Officer Shri Surya Bhushan Sahay were alleged to have extended
help to the returned candidate and took law and order in their
own hands. . v "\
The respondents denied all the allegations and stated that
there uas non-compliance of Section 83 of the Representation
of the People Act, because material facts vfv'a not mentioned in
the petition and the petitions uers not verified. Hsnca
the petition uas liable to be dismissed. During pleading3
of the parties, thi3 issrc Uas houever no-t pressed. As regards
improper rejection .of the nomination papers of the petitioner
Shri Gomeya Parti, the High Court referred to Section 33(2) •
of the Representation of the People Act uhich provides that
in a constituency where any seat is reserved, the candidate
shall not be deemed to be qualified to-be chosen to fill that
seat unless the nomination paper contains a declaration by him
specifying his particular caste or tribe to which he belongs. /
This Section nowhere provides that the candidate must file a
certificate showing his caste from any competent authority.
As such, there uas no failure of compliance of the provisions .
of section 33 or 34 of the Representation of the People Act,
contd...
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by the patitioner and his nomination papers uere wrongly
rejected by the Returning Officer. The petitioner uho belonged
to •Ho1 community, uas never disputed at any time. No body
f i led any objection uith regard to the caste of the election
petitioner uhen he f i led his nomination papers. The Returning
Officer himself admitted in his evidence that i t uas not
required under lau to attach scheduled tribe cert i f icat ion
uith the nomination papers. Returning Officer's conduct of
rejecting his nomination papers uas held as improper and
i l l ega l . .
The other nomination paper proposed by one Shri Lanka
Bari uas also challenged because the name of the proposer ua3
alleged to have not been on the electoral ro l ls of tha said
constituency. Documentary evidence proved that his name
appeared at S.No.423 of part No.133 of the electoral r o l l .
There uas only a mistake in noting the serial number© The
Returning Officer himself admitted £hat. i7?~V? J-t u a 3 proved
that both the nomination pap&ts of Shri Gomeya Purti uere
rejected arbi t rar i ly and improperly by the Returning Officer.
As regards improper acceptance of the nomination papers of one
Shri Sonaram Sag, i t uas alleged that he belonged to 'Tameriya1
c-adte uhich uas not included in the scheduled t r ibe. Documentary
and oral evidence proved that he did not belong to scheduled
tribe and his nomination papers uere improperly accepted by the
Returning Officer. But the High Court also held that acceptance
of his nomination papers did not materially affect the result
of the election because he polled only 559 votes and even i f
contd. . . . .
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these votes uere addad to tha votes polled by the next
candidate, he uould have not uon the election.
Charges of corrupt practices uera not pressed and the
parties did not adduce any oral or documentary evidence in
this respect*
In the election petition No.7 of 1985, i t uas claimed
that the petitioner Smt.PTuktidani Sumbrui uas entitled to be
declared elected* This issue uas also not pressed* There
uas nothing to shou that this petitioner could have secured
more votes than that of the elactsd candidates. Thus she
could not be declared eL'ected.
In vieu of the above findings, election petit ion
No.8/85(R) uas allowed and election petition No.7/85(R) uas
partly alloued. I t uas proved that both the nomination
papers of Shri Gomeya Purti u6Ia i l legal ly and improperly
rejected. Under saction 1.00(1') (o) of the Representation
of tha People Act, the election of the elected candidate
requires to be. declared as i l lega l and void. Hence the
election of respondent No.1" Shri Radhe Munda from
295-Chaibasa(ST) assembly constituency uas declared
as i l lega l and void vide High-Court's orders dated
9.12.1937.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB ANO HARYANA
ELECTION PETITION NO.3 Of 1987
. « • • .
Rana Kr i shan Pal Singh . . . .Peti t ioner
Vs.
Subhash Xhand ....Respondent
This election petit ion uas f i led by Rana Krishan Pal
Singh, an elector calling in question the election of the
respondent Shri Subhash Chand to the Haryaba Legislative
Assembly from Palual constituency in the general election
held in i"937.
The petit ion uas f i led on the basis of sole ground
that there uas an alliance betueen the 3anta Party and
Lok Oal(A) and Janta party sst up no candidate. I t uas only -
the Lok Dal(A) uhose candidate contested the election from
the said constituency. 3anta Party symbol 'Haldhar in a
Circle1 uas allotted urongly to one Shri Shiv Naralnj an
independent candidate. This resulted into a confusion in the
minds of voters that the aJliance of the said parties had
broken doun and they voted for Lok Dal(B) candidate, uhich
materially affected the result of the election. I t uas
alleged that i f the Oanta Party symbol uas not allotted to
the independent candidate then Lok Dal(A) candidate uould have
got at least 10,000 more votes and those votes instead of going
in favour of respondent No.3 uould have gone to the candidate
set up by Lok Dal(A).contd.••••
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The High Court observed that the petitioner in no uay
averred that i f the 3anta Party symbol had not been urongly
allotted to Shri Shiv Narain, Lok Dal(A) candidate uould hava
secured more votes than the returned candidate. He only
averred that the losing candidate uould have got 10,000 votes
more i f election symbol uas not urongly a l lot ted. Evan i f
10,000 votes uere deducted from the 25,000 v'otes by uhich ha
uas leading, the respondent uould s t i l l be leading by
16,000 vote's.
Since the High Court found no cause of action, i t dismissed
the election petit ion uith costs vid8 i t s orders dated
23.11.1987.
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In the iiifih Court of Judicature, Raj as thanHection letitjcn No. 14/1^35
Baniya petitioner
VS.
Raghuvar Dayal * Respondents& others
This election petition was filed by Shri
Baniya, a defeated candidate calling in question
the election of the 1st respondent Sh. Raghuvar
Dayei to the Raj as than Legislative. Assembly frcm
6 2- Ranigarh .assembly Gcnstituency, in the general
election held in March, 1985. Ihe petition
was filed on the following grounds;-
1. The respondent wen the election by a margin
of 1006 votes. since lunch was not provided
to the Counting Staff they lef t .counting hall .
and in their absence respondent1 s agents mixed
up the bundles of the ballots of the petitioner
in the ballots of Sh. Raghuvar Dayal , the 1st
respondent which materially affected the result
of the election.
2. Invalid votes were counted in favour of the
respondent.
3. The petitioner1 s agent Sh. Sardar Khan
submitted an application to itbe MO for recounting
"which was refused. Ihe K.O. however, re fused to .
supply the certified copy of the order on the
pretext thet no such a--_lication h-d baai
p resented by the patitionor.
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4. T.iv. re ''-o i,..r- re: er zejucui^r. ci t_ >J nu..in^. ti en
paper of one iia t. . shu.
Ihe responden t No. 1 denied all t;£ allegations
levelled againest him. As regards allegation at
(1) , a number of witnesses including counting agents
were examined by the respondent. But the petitioner
did not produce any independent witness like the
counting supervisors or other counting agents or
the MO in support of his allege.clon. The only
witness of the petitioner one Sh. Lakhu Ram did not
state a single word, regarding irregularity or mixing
of Ballot papers. Table numbers where mixing of votes
was done, were not mentioned. Moreover, no complaint
in writing was made by the .petitioner'or his agents in
this regard to the &0. Thus the first allegation was
held not to have been proved by the petitioner.
As regards the second allegation the High Court ,,
noted that thapeti ti oner nei tiier gave any serialof . •
numbers^the. ballot papers which were wrongly
declared invalid or wrongly counted in favour of" Shri
Raghuvar Dayal nor any serial number, table number,
names of counting agents who had noted the irregularities
had been mentioned.
As regards allegation at(3) above, the court
found no material on record with regard to filing
of any such application for recounting. The
petitioner admitted in his statement that he did
not make any request to the EO for giving the
receipts of those applications or ccrapltints.Regarding allegation of improper rejection
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of the nomination papers of one 3nt. Asha, the
peti tioner did not subni t the certL fied copy of
nomination roan or Shit, <isha for supporting his
allegation. I t was proved that her nomination
paper was rightly rejected becatsa she was holding
an office of profit and was thus disqualified
to contest the election..
In view of the above findings, the High
Court found no forco in the petition and dismissed
i t vide i t s orders dated 23.11.1937.
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I.': THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPEAL N0.4(NCE) OF 1937
Deuan Ooynal Absdin . . . .Apps l lan t
Us.
Abdul Uazed a l ias AbdulUazed Pliah and two others. ....Respondents
This appeal was f i l e d by Shri Deuan Doynal Abadin
against the judgment dated 2.12.1986 of the Gauhati High
Court set t ing aside his e lec t ion to the Legis lat ive Assembly
of Assam from 22-Salmara South Legislat ive .Assembly
Constituency i n the general e lec t ion held i n December, 1985.
The e lect ion p e t i t i o n Mo.2 of 1985 uas f i l e d by Shri Abdul
Uazed ffliah ca l l ing i n question the e lect ion of Deuan Joynal
Abedin on tha ground that his nomination papers were wrongly
rejected by the Returning Off icer on the ground of non-completion
of 25 years of age on ths date of scrut iny of nomination
papers and resultant ina l ig ib i l i ty to contest elaction. I t
ua3 also alleged in tha petition that he had not subscribed
an oath as required by .Article 173(a) of the Constitution
and he uas also disqualified to contest tha election because
he had a subsisting contract entered into by him uith the
Government of Assam.
After recording the evidence produced by both the parties,
the High Court hald that tha respondent had completed 25 years
of age, therefore he uas qualified to contest the election.
The Returning Officer uas houever, held to have urongly
rejected his nomination papers uhich materially affected
contd.. .
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the result of the election. The election of Shri Dauan Joynal
Abedin uas thus declared void by the High Court. The other
tuo allegations uere held to have not been proved.
Aggrieved by that judgment, the appellant filed this appeal
under section 116-A of the Representation of the People Act.
On the basis of documentary evidence and record available
uith the Supreme Court, it uas proved that the respondent Sh.Abdul
Uazed Hian had completed 25 years of aga and actually he uas
29 years old at the time of scrutiny of nomination papers. :
The issue of taking an oath uas not pressed in Supreme Court.
The only matter uhich uas taken up in detail by ths Supreme
Court uas reference to Section 9-A of the Representation of the
People Act uhich uas not considered by the High Court of Assam.
Section 9-A provides.-
"Disqualification for Government contracts, etc. « Aperson shall be disqualified if, and for so longas,there subsists a contract entered into by him in tnecourse of his trade or business uith the appropriateGovt. for the supply of goods to, or for the executionof any uorks undertaken by that Government."
The respondent, in the present case uas the lessee of
the tolls of the Public Ferry at Phulbari Ghat uhich uas ender
Executive Engineer, PUD, Goalpara (Roads), Division.
Uhile referring to Section 9-A of the Representation of the
People Act, the Supreme Court held:-
u An analysis of section 9-A of the Act shous that onlyin tuo cases a person uould be disqualified if he hasentered into a contract uith the appropriate Govto inthe course of his trade or business uhich is subsisting onthe date of scrutiny of nomination. They are (i) u:henthe contract is one for supply of goods to the appropriateGovt. and (ii) uhere the contract is for the executionof any uorks undertaken by that Govt. If a contractbelonging to either of the tuo categories is subsistingon the date of ths nomination, the person uill be dis-qualified for being chosen as a member. In the present
contd....
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case, th8 contract is not one for supply of goodsto the Govt. It does not, therefore, fall underthe first class of contracts uhich create thedisqualification. The question for daterminationis whether the contract to collect toll at theGout. Ferry entered into in accordance with theFerries Act amounts to a contract for the executionof any uorKs undertaken by the Gout. At this stagous should remember that the uords 'or the performancaof any services' usre omitted from Section 7(d) by thaamendnent made in the year "1958............. unless,tha contract in question is one uhich clearly fallsunder Section 9-A of the Act, it would not be properto hold that the person uho is a party to the contractis disqualified for being chosen as a member to theState Legislature."
Thus the Supreme Court held that the rejection of
responcfsnt No.i's nomination papers was. invalid and the
election of the appellant uas therefore rightly set asids
by the Gauhati High Court on the ground mentioned in
Section 100(1)(C) of the Representation of- the People Act,
'1951. The appeal uas dismissed with costs vide Supreme
Court's orders dated 15.12.1987.
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CHAPTCR-III
CASES OF DISQUALIFICATIONS
During the month of January, 193S, 104 persons uere
disqualified under section 10A of the Representation of
tha People Act, 1951, for failure to lodge their accounts
of election expenses at all or uithin the time and/or in
the manner required by lau. All these persons contested
election to the Legislative Assemblies of various States.
Their names and addresses are given in the following
pages.
All these persons uere disqualified vide Commission's
orders dated 7,1.1988. Therefore their disqualifications
uill automatically stand renoved on 7.1.1991.
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LIST PF PERSONS DISQUALIFIED UuQERSECTICN 1OA OF THE R . P . ACT,1951
STATE: BIHAR, , . . .. DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 7-. 1 .88 ." 1. t'
S. particulars Kama end Address Reasons forNo of election SJIo, and name of Con tasting dlsgualificatlcn
of Assembly CandidatoConstituency
1. General election 8-Bottiab Siri ¥.lsha«iath Failed to lo<3^«to Bihar prasad, ®ny account ofLegislative Gang ifo. 2 , electionAssentay, 198?. Ward i:o. 15» expenses,
Bettiah, West "Chasparan, *Eiaar.
21 -do- 22-Ifaose<ST) fihri>fan pratap fiaay.. - V&F.G. JScdanga. -do-
a i s t t , Qoi^algaai^, • Bihar..
3". i-do- ^*X&rai&i Hiri ajrorider Kiaar Bal.Vili . Towari Tola Slktia,P.O. Khavr,srsfttr> -<to«rdst t . Siwan,Elhar,
^ . ^©-electlcn to 210-M^i8r fihrl ^ajeidra fei, -do-Bihar Legislate* V. Hgnuaan£«n j ,Assentoy, 198* . " . P .p . dent^iari,
. - • Eist t .; ' Bihar.
contd...•
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v STATE: HARYANA DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 7.1.B8
S.No. Particularsof elections
STNO. and name Name and address . Reason forof constituency of the candidate, disqualifi-
cation.
1. 2. 4. 5.
1. General Electionto HaryanaLegislativeAssembly,1987.
21-Radaur(SC)
2,
3 .
4.
5 .
6 .
7.
8 .
10 .
rdo-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-ao-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do.
88-riviahendra-garhi
Shri Gurdev Singh Failed toVill..& P.O. Topra lodge anyKalan, Teh.Thanesar account ofDist t . Kurukshetra. election
expenses.
Shri Jai PalH.No.208, W.No.5, -do-Ladwa,. Kurukshetra.
Shri Jee Ram'H.N'o.269,East BhatiaNagar,Yamuna Nagar, -do-(Arabala).
'Shri Lachhraan Dass,Vill.Bapoli, . -do-P.O. Bapa,Teh.Thanesar,Dist t . Kuruksr.etra;
Shri Balak Ram, ' -Vill . MasanaRangran,P.O. Mustfabad, -do-Teh. Thanesar,Dis t t . Kurukshetra.
Shri Mahabir,Vill . .& P.O. Sigra, ' -do-Teh. 8. Uistt.Mahendra-garh, (Haryana).
32-iN.alanaur(oC) Shri Pat Ram,Vill.& P.O. Garhi(Ballab)
87-Jatusana
-do-
-do-
Dist t . Rohtak. -d»—
Shri iviahender. Singh,Vil l . & P.O.ivianuala,Teh. lewari, -d*—Dist t . iviahendragarh.
Shri hoshiar Singh,Vill . Aulant, P.U.SuraliTeh.Rewari, -do-Dist t . iviahendragarh.
Shrimati oantosh, Failure toVill . Chandanwas,. lodge theTeh. Revvari, J i s t t . account iniviahendragarh .Haryana. the manne:
requiredby law.
contd..
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STATE: HARYA;NA
1 . 2 .
DATE OF (DISQUALIFICATION: 7 . 1 . 8 3
3 . 4 . 5 .
11. General Election 89-Atelito HaryanaLegislativeAssembly,1987.
12. -do-
1-3.
14.
15 .
16.
- d o -
-do.-
.-dc»
- d o -
86-Rewari
-do—
- d o -
- d o -
-do -
17. - d c - -do-
18. -do- ' 83-Rori
19. - d o -
2 9 . - d o - '
- d o -
- d o -
SharmaShri Om ?arkash£ Failed toVill.Kunjpura* -2counfn^P.O.Tajpur,Teh. & a ,
• 4.4. K ,1 v electxoni j i s t t . iviahendragarh. e x p e n s e s _
- d o -
'-d«r-
—do-
—do-
Shri i-vhem Chand,Vili.Kumbhawas,Teh. Rewari,Distt.iviahendragarh,Haryana.
Shri Tota Ram,Vill.Jhakia, Teh.Rewari,Distt. Mahendragarh,Haryana.
Shri Birender Nath,H. No, 53 6 7, Sv/amiwara,Rewari,uistt.Mahendragarh,Haryana.
Shri Mangal,Vill.& P.G.Dharuhera,Teh. Rewari,Jistt. iviahendragarh.
Shri Ram Singly,S/o Har Kishan,Vilx. & P.O.Bithwana,Teh. Rewari, Distt..Mahendrag arh,Haryana.
-d*.-
S h r i Tek Chand, Failed toMohalla uelhi Gate,loo;ge the ".Rewari, u i s t t . accourtt inMahendragarh, the manner
• , required bylaw.
Shri Kartar Sinah, Failed*t&Vil l . t P.O.Desu- lodge r,.\y .malkana, Teh.Labv/a-li, accountu i s t t . Sirsa. _ of'election
expenses.
Shri Jaswant Rai,Vili. & r-.O. Rajpura,Teh. uabvial-i, -d»-Distt. Sirsa.
Shri Sher .Singh', 'Vili. & P.O.Banwala, -do-Teh. L'abwali,
t . Sirsa,Haryana.
contd.
— 32 —
STATE: HAKYANA
1 . 2 .
DATE OF DI5uUAUFICATI0N:7,.1.88
4 .
21.General Electionto HaryanaLegislativeAssembly,1987.
22. -do-
2 3 . -c io -
24 .
2 5 .
2 6 .
2 7 .
2 8 .
2 9 .
3 0 .
- G O —
-do-
-do -
- 0 0 -
-do-
52-Sirsa Shri Cm Parkash, Failed toS/o Labh Ghand, lodge anyLohia Basti.Gali account ofNo.2,Begu Road, electionSirsa, Haryana. expenses.
-do— Shri J a i Kishore,Noharia Gate, Balmiki - d o -Mandir, S i r s a .
- d o - Shri Naunihal Singh,V i l l . & P.O.Sikanderpur,Teri. & u i s t t . S i r s a , - d o -Haryana.
-do— .. Shri Mahafcrir Parsed,S/o Gulab Ram, -do—Ware No. 1 ,_>abwali Road,Subhash Bas t i , S i r s a .
- d o - Shri Ramesh,S/o Morang Rai,. - d o -Gal i wioman i\amberdar Vi/ali,3hadra Bazar ,S i r sa .
- d o - Shri .Sanjha Rsra,- .• -. ' - .' House No.5 E,Near -. ' - d o -
Adait ional iviandi, . S i r sa .
-do- Shri Sun i l ,Gal i Pharia v/ali, - d o -3hadra Bazar, S i r s a .
-do— Shri Subhash Chander,S/o Chanan Mai, -do—Gali- Khai Wali, >Vard - •No. 10, S i r s a .
- d o - Shri Surender Kumar,S/o Kundan Mai, —do—Begu Road ,Grev/al B a s t i ,Gali No. 1, Sirsa. '
-do- 2-Naraingarh Shri Ota Parkash,Vill. Barauli,Teh. Naraingarh,Distt . Ambala.
contd,
Account r3i.lodge . . ' inthe mannerrequired by lav,
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STATE: HARYANA DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 7.1.88
5 .
31.General Electionto HaryanaLegislativeAssembly,1987.
32. -do-
33. -do- ;
34. -do
35. -do-
36. . -do—
27-Pai Shri Bhale Ram, Fai-ed to lo^Vi l l . S. P.O.Guhaa, . hnyA/C of E.cTeh. Kailhal, tion expences .Dis t t . Kurukshetra,
28-Hassangarh Shri Jagdish Khanakwal,Vi l l . & P.O.Kaharawar,
Rohtak.
d o -
-do-
-do-
31-Meham
.Shri Jagdish Malik,Vill. & P.O. .Kaharawar,Distt. kohtak.
Shri Jai Narain,Vill. & P O.Kheri Sadh,-jistt.. Hohtak..
Shri i3ishan Singh,,Vill. & P.O. Gi jhi ,Dis t t , Rohtak.
Shiri Sudarshah Kumar,-.Nirmal- Mohalla,Meham,Dis t t . hohtak,Haryana.
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do—
.-at*
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STATE: DAHf-U & KASHHIR DATfT OF DISQUALI FICATI DN: 7.1 . 88
S.No. Particulars S.iMo. and Name and address Reason forof election. name of of the candidates. disqualifi-
assembly cation._ constituency. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1. 2._ _ _3_. 4. _ _ _ _5_
T. General Election 1 -Karnah Shri Mohd Y'ousif, Failed toto JaiKTiU and R/o Khowerpora, lodge anyKashmir Legis- P.O. Tanghdar, account oflative Assembly, . Distt. Kupwara, election1987. _ " ' Jammu end Kashmir. expenses* •
2. -do- . 2-Handwara Shri Gh. Mohd. jar,R/o & P.O. Handwara, -do-u.istt* Kupwara (J&K).
3. -do- " 6-5onawari Shri Gh. Mohi-ua-dinWagay,
Sadhonra, Sonawari, -do-Uistt. Saramulla (J8.K).
4. -do- . 7-Pattan - Shri Gh.Mohc. YaLoo,"R/o Goshbagh, Pattar,, " -do-uistt. Baramulla(J&K).
5. -do- -de - . Shri. Abdul Hamid Wani,Goshbugh, Pattan, -do-Distt. Baramulla(JS-K).
6. -do- . 12-Baramulla . Shri Manjeet- Singh,Singhpora, - -do-
• Baramulla, (J&K).7. -do- 14-Kangan Shri Ghulam Rasool,
' . • R/o Lar, -do-Distt. Srinagar(J&K).
8. -do- 16-Hazratbal Shri eofi Ghulam Ahmad,Sona !/.asjid, -do-Srinagpr, (J&K).
9. -do- 19-Zainakadal Shri Siraj-ud-Din Sh-?.h,8,New- Housing Colony, -do-
, - ' dabedemb, Srinagar(J^K).1,0. -do- -do- Shri Ghulam Nabi Naqash,
Sohari Kadal, -do-Bazar Masjid, Srinagar.
11. -do- . -do- Shri Mohd Ashraf Khan,Ghaus Mohella, -do-Jama Masjid,Srinagar.
12. -do- . _ -do- Shri Nazir Ahmad Mir,"Badu Bagh, Khamyar, -do-Srin?.gar, (Ja,.\).
ccntd..• . .. ."
STATE: 3AMI-.U & KASHMIR OF DISQUALIFICATIONS.1.68
1 . 3 . 4 . 5 .
13. General ElecLion 20-Idgahto Jammu andKashmir Legisla-tive Assembly,1987.
14 .
15 .
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
2 1 .
22.
-do-
-do-
-do-
29-Pampore
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
- Q O -
46-InderV^al
47-3haderwah• (sc)
48-Joda
49-Ramban-
-do-
-do-
50-Banihal
Shri Bashir Ahmad,Arampore. ,Nawakadal,Srinagar (J&K)
Failed tolodge anyaccount ofelection.expenses.
Shri iviohd Sadiq Rather,Sakka Jamar,5afakadal, -do—Srinagar (J&K).
Shri Mohd Akbar Lone,Failed to lodgeS/o Shri Mohd Munawar the accountLone, R/o Lacihoo,-.Teh. Pampore,u i s t t . Pulwama(J&K).
Shri Hamidullah,iviangthala ThakraiTehsil KishtwarsOistt . joda, (J&K).
Shri Qm Parkash,Village Naggar,TehsilJ i s t t . Doda
Shri" Sher Singh,Thaloda-Thathri,Dist t . Doda (J&K)
within timeend in themannerrequired.
Failed tolodge anyaccount ofelectionexpenses.Failed tolodge theaccount withintime and in themanner required.Failed tolodge anyaccount ofelectionexpenses.
'Shri Bisha'Uass,R/o !/ill.& F . O . Baggar, -do-u i s t t . Doda (J&K).
Shri Jev Raj,'R/o Ohar Jhandrath, -do-Jistt. Doda (J&K).Shri havinder Singh Kotwal,Vill. & P.O. Rarnban, -do-Distt.- Doda .(J&K).Shri Khadam HussainR/o Chamalwas, -. ~do-Tehsil Banihal»Jistt. Doda (J&K).
contd...•
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-_STATE:_K£RALA
5 .No.
DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 7 .1 .88
Particularsof election
3.No.andname ofconstituency
Name ofcontestingc and id at e 3
3
Reasons ford is au a 1 if ic a-
t ion
5
3 .
4 .
5.
6.
7 .
8 .
9. '
10.
General -"Electionto the KeralaLegislativeAssembly- 19"F
- 0 . 0 -
- d o -
- d o -
- a o -
-00 -
- a o -
- d o -
- d o -
- Q O -
M--Hosdrug(oC)
5-Trikarpur
-Calicut-I
70-Parur
72-Ernakulam
S/31iri
K. Madhavan, Ac3/o Virunthan, loKanichira Nileswar ;Kasaragod Di s t r i c t ,Kerala.
ount not.- id at
Accc-unt notin nrnnerP-.M. Michel,
Paruthappara House,Bheemandi P.O.Via Nileswar,Kerala.
K. Sahadevan,BeautyLand,Chelat paramba, -do-Kuthiravattom ,CalicutKerala.
A.K.Balan,Arukat, AccountChett ikkad,P0-Kunj i - not lodgedt h a i , Kerala. at a l l
A.U.Mohammed(M andalam)Azhivelikkathu Veedu,Moh-mraed Iqbal Road, -^•n-nar.Edavon-Jckadu P0-682J02;-1;-nner
Kerala. '
73-M att ancher ry M =JIek j i 3. K hona,S/ I
Ac count
78-Kunnathunad
88-Vazhocr
-do-
-d-:-
j ,H.No.S/1 3I+3 ,Koovapp ?.dan ,nctCochin-2, Kerala. lodged
at a l l
-do-M . C.Thomas ^'lakul^in Vesdu ,Pering.ala-P0 ,Kunnathunad ,Kerala.
Thomas Joseph,0otha-parackal^lanthuru-f-hy PC, -do-Nedumkunnam , Kerala.
R. Raj an,Sudha Bhav an,Karukachal-PO ,Kerala.
Smt.P.V.Kut t iamn a,Valiaparambil House,"Chelakombu-PO ,(Via)Karuk°chal, Kerala.
-do-
-do-
contd.•.•
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•. :£ (JF^ QIS s J \ L I PI iJ.-iTl U!:: 7 . 1 . 8 8
11. G ena r -.1 Ele ct ionto the Kerala 89-ChanganacherryLegislative Assembly-1987.
1 2 .
13 .
14.
15.
16 .
17 .
1 8 .
1 9 .
20.
2 1 .
22 .
-do-
-do-
- d o -
-do-
-do-
•-do-
-do-
-dc-
-d - •
-do-
-do-
- -do-
-do-
9 2-Put hupp a l ly
-do-
96-VaHscta(3C)
-do-
101 -Amb->lapuzha-
-do-
-do-
-d-o-
3/3hri
Koduppunna Appachsn, AccountKcduppunnn. V-'.Iiyw-&dU, netCh'tnth^adavu , lodgedCh-in£-.nacherrj-,Kerrla. ::t e l l
Thomas Varghese,K ±z hakk akut t u ,Ch-3eranchira-P0 ,Changrzi?,cherry .Kerala. - i o -
C. V i j ayan.at h, Anar i lBungalow ,Kalakunn:m-P0, -do-Changanache rry ,K erala
Scaria Ph i l i p ,Th-kad i l l ~.l >M -.nchad i -kkara,Ch nganacherry,Kerala.
-do-
Jcse Varghese,Punchiyil -do-V33du ,Kothala-PC ,Ker-ala.
M at hukut t y 4 anclckum -puzha,Vell;.cr-PQ. ,Ksrala.
Pcnnappan Umankari,Unankari,T.y.Puram P0. ,V a ik cm T - luk , K c 11 ay rmDistr ic t , Kerala.
K. K .M r han an ,K run an-tharayi l ,K ".ripDadaE,P0. ,Vaikc-iC!i Taluk,Kc+t ay?m Distt ,Kerala.
K. P .N agand ran ,M allicayilK cir; • \n -1, Am b a l apu z h a,Kerala ,
Shahul HaT. sed Mutoarr..:isd,Kandakulang - r a v e l i ,Neerkunn-T. ,Alleppey-5 >Kerala .
M .M. 3har i f f ,K aab iv - l a -pp i l vcadu ,Kakk" z b n ,Vandana-:-PC , Kcrx la .
T.E.Saiffuddin,T nun dup ar nn b i l ,
-d: -
-do-
- d c -
- d o -
-do -
- d c -
- d c -
T hak "•- 2 h y , K e r a l a .
c o n t d . . .
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• STATE:
1
KERALA
2 3
DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 7 . 1 . 8 8
3/3hri23. Gsnsrrd. Election
. to" the Ksrala 102-Kufctanad Jacob Sobastian,Puthu Account •Legisl it ive V :iodu . Cherukara--PO. , not
. _ Assembly-1987 Kuttanad, Kerala. lodged at
24. -do- 103-Haripad . A.IJ .Hacklichan, -Tharniayajn ,Knnnamk ra-PO. , -60-ThanneGrmukkom,Kerala.
25. -60- -do- Pallana Raghav-n: , >..MupparayiljThrikkunnapuzha, -do-Pall.aria, Kerala. " • •
26., -do- • -do- S.SuJ3XL,Vil;mjalloor.,Muthukul^m South, -do-Muthukulam-Pi. ,Kerala.
.27. -do- lO^-lKayankulm G.Radhakrishnan Nair,Ottathukojidathil,Muthukulam,Choolatheruve-PO. ,Kerala. -do-
SJAJ_E: SIKKI_n DATE ^^OpyJAL^F^C^T^ONl^ 2 » i * I 9 ^ 3
1. General Election 26-Tekdong Sh.Tgnzing Gyatso, • Failed to
iativekAssemDiy7a5. T i n t e k Vill.Dikchu, East lodge anyDist r ic t , Sikkitn. • account of
electionexpanses.
STATEi UTTAR PRADESH QlVT^_0_FDl5qUALir:CPsTlr:'.7.1\./\988
1. General Election 84-Sandila Smt.Somvati Devi> Failed toto the U.P.Legis- Begunganj,Poorvi lodge anylat ive Asssmbly, Sandila,Oistt. account in•jg85. Hardoi,Uttar Pradesh, the manner
required bylau.
CON'TD.
STATE: WEST BENGAL DATE OF 6lSQUALIF-ICATI0.J:3.1.1988
S. ParticularsNc. of election
SI. No. andNprne ofAss3m"b]yConstituency
• 3
iTme of Address ofContesting candi-date
Reasonsfor dis-qualifi-cation
2 .
GeneralElection, toWest Bengal "LegislativeAssembly ,1987 - .
~do-
95-Basirhat
•96-Hasnabad
Shri Tar nn i Singh a Failed to._ . . & Vi l l . Ehaltitha lodgeDistt , north 2h- any accountParganas . of electionVJest Bengal . expenses
'Phri pa r Enmesh warMcndal.Vi i : . . TiQVpur,P . 0 . Che to Sena ra ,D i t t I T t h '
- d o -
3- ~do-
6 .
_db-
-do-
-do-
97-Haroa (SC) . Chri.RsE Krishna" • • , • • S a r c a r ; • • .
• P.O., &'"rilj.. Dak shin,^htl
-do-
. Di.stt. North21-:--Farfarias,VTest. Bengal.-
9S-Sandesh Khali. ('rC) •• &ri- Athimanya Das,. .. _do-
P-Q. -c V i l l . Khulna-, •D i s t t . Tcrth -2i+_pargr-.nas,.West Bengal. • r
99-iringalgcnj ; s h r i p^.i i t Gay en • _do-(;r7C) P : ° j : a . * T11}' Eashabad,
D i s t t . "or"';: 2^-parga.nas ,We-t Bengal .
133-^i-cagirh 1 . S h r i Din•>. Nath Soh , _do-8 _H,K.Deb P a t h ,Titagerr-, North S^-Parganas,VJest Bengal,
- c o -
P . O . TAV.garh,Nor-:-l] 2 L _ P a r g a r i a sWest B ?
-do-
Ocntd..., /^
STATE- UE3T BENGAL ' DATE OF DIS^UALIFICATION:7.1.1988
T ~"2 ""X"^"""--- ---
n to Vil l . & P.O. Lagda, acouWest bengal • Distt . purulia, electionLegislative • V/est Bengal. expensesAssembly , .. .1987 - •-
' a _ d c _ ' -do- Shri Hazari Prasad -do-. • • Haj war ,
•Vi l l . & P . C Dumdumi,Dis t t . pur ' - l ia ,West Bengal. .
10 -do- 239-Purulia Shri Tarapada Mukherjee ,"Vi l l . Budra, . •• -do -P . 0 . Bansraya, 'D i s t t . puru-lia, <VJest Bengal.
A* d o _ . »iC5- • Shri Jamlni Kanta Mahato^ .". • . • • • V i l l . La l t aza r , - d o -
p . 0 . Natua,Dis t t . purfil ia,
• . "West Bengal.
12. -do- • ' ' 2^.1-Raghunath- Shri Eala Sona Bauri, -do-pur (SC)-. V i l l . & P.O. Santur i ,
•D i s t t . pu ru l i a ,. • West Bengal.
13 . -do- 2U-3_Hura Shri Eaghambar Mahato, - do -Vi l l . Shyamaluta,P . 0 . K.P . Hangadih,Distt. purulia,West Bengal.
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CHAFTLR-I]/
DISPOSAL 0_F El£ CTjON. .PETITIONS •
During the month of January, 1998, tha Commission
received int imation about disposal of 5 election pe t i t i ons
in the various High Courts. Intimation regarding disposal
of 2 appeals in elect ion matters uas received from the
Supreme Court. Int imation regarding f i l i n g of 1 tnora
election pet i t ion and 1 more appeal in a elect ion matts-r uas
also received.
Details of election pet i t ions f i l e d , disposed of
and pending in tha High Courts and appeals in the Supreme
Court fol lowing (a) General Election to the Legislat ive
Assemblies held in 1977-79, (b) General Election to the
Housa of the People, 1980, (c) General Elections to the
Legislative Assemblies, 1990, (d) General Election to the
Legislative Assemblies, 1983, (a) Gsneral Election to the
House of the People, 1984-85, ( f ) General Elections to the
Legislat ive Assemblies, 1984, (g) General Elections to ths
Legislat ive Assemblies, 1985 and (h) General Elections-to
the Legislative Assemblies, 1937 are furnished in the nine
statements (I to IX} anre xed.
As on 31.1.1988, 210 election, pet i t ions and 90 appeals
ara pending in various High Courts and. Supreme Court of India
respectively. A statement (Mo.X) shouing the period for which
thjase election pet i t ions in di f farent High Courts and appeals
in the Supreme Court are pending is also annexed.
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GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASaEnBLlES, 1977-795
*
gAJP-f .B.l.ect.ip.n _petitions f i l ed , disposed.of, pending in the" .High. ,c,our^s"'a^np^_a£p_8^K3^{ J^he^Supj^eme^Cour^ ; • "* '
-.'..' • ..'.• - — — ' I . ' - - - -(As on 31.1.1988 ) . -. - ..• ••! n ; - i l l ? ! • • • • < . ; j , f , ' • • • . • : i . i l 7 ' w - « - . c . t - , ' ( • ' < > • '
. 'S.'NO. 'f'ia'nio V f State/"" TljBVEi]orTp"etTtxojn^'Tn.jtVe H ^ J S O ^ H y ^ ' ^ i ! ^ ^Union Fflocf _ ^ *] pTs£os'a'd*yf'* ^PencTrng*^ File'd ^fspo'so'd^of Pe'ndingT e r r i t o r y . Upt6 :VhV" *"D"urTng*"YoTal liJp"to"the' DurThg t i ln l
end of the , . . end of the, . „. ,„ ... ._ ..„ _ _. last month month. • . last month month
_A. ....;. 2 , 3_ -_ •_ 4z „ . . z : : z isi i zii z 11111 ."x 11 iio;: zn z i i?rI.Andhra Pradesh (1978) 21 21 - 21 6 6 62.Assam (1978) 9 9 - ' 9 - 3 3 - 3 -3.Bihar (1977) 31 31 -• 31 6 6 64.Haryana (1977) 7 7 7 - 2 2 - 25.Himachal Pradesh (1977) 5 5 - ' 56.3ammu & Kashmir (1977) 19 ' 19 - 19 - 4 4 - 47.Karnataka (1978) ,74 . 7 4 - 74 - 4 4 48.Kerala (1977) ' 19 19 - 19 6 6 - 6g.fladhya Pradesh (1977) 28 • 28 - 28 - ' 6 6 • 610.Maharashtra (1978) 13 13 " i - 13 - 2 2 - 211.Meghalaya (1978) 1 1 I - 1 - - - -i2 .Naga land (1978) 9 g - _ 9 - . 1 1 «. 1l o . O r i a s a f 1 9 7 7 ) 6 \ 6 . . . - . ' 6 1 1 - 114.Pun j ab (1977) 16 16. - 16 - • 10 10 - 10i 5 . R a j a s t h a n ( 1 9 7 7 ) ! • 18 1 8 ' 1 - 1 8 . - " 4 4 - 4 -1 6 . 5 i k k i m ( 1 9 7 9 ) 2 2 - 2 - - - - . -'1 7 . T a m i l N a d u ( 1 9 7 7 ) 8 13 - * 8 - . 5 5 - 51 8 . U t t a ' r P r a d e s h ( 1 9 7 7 ) . 3 7 3 7 - 3 7 - 9 7 - 7 219.West Bengal (1977) 1 - j . - 1 _ _ _ . » _ »UNION TERRITORIES; , .2 0 . D e l h i (1977J 4 4 - 4 _ - _ _ - _
, 2 1 . Go a, Daman & Diu (1977) 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 _ •) _22. r i i zoram (1979) 2 2 - 2 - 2 2 22"3.Pondicherry (1977) 2 2 - 2 - -
ToTaT5 531 333 I S3l I 7? "7B I 75 2* Go a granted Statehood "uTi.f .30.5.87 *«Granted Statehood u.e. f ;20.2 .1987.
0 f
- 43 -
GENERAL ELECTION TD THE LOK SABHA. 1980
fkirnba.^ of e lec t i on pe t i t i ons • / i l e d ^ dis qosed _qfy_ pending i n theH.igh Courts and appeals ^in the Suprems Court* "*"
(As on.31.1.1988 ) •
's.*No# Na'me o f S t a t e / " lQeJ&i-.°Jl .PatTtTo'ns i'ri 'the TTij'>h~Co*uFt3'»'JA'pp¥al's*"iH "the Supreme "c'o'ur't.Union F i iec f f j ^ PAJiRPs.QA^PS I * ' l l l_PB nd" :^nV (r i le~C--i)A?-£?A?i^0. f __!_ To'ndingT e r r i t o r y . UptoYhV~"~*"TDu'f'fngYfotal tTpto^the" Du r"i hg Total
end of • the ' - . end of the._ ,. j , last month rnonth. _ . • last month month
L/C ....'.. I2.,,..:, Z „ „ _3. . I I .» _ _5I I _' _6111?! 11 _ 11119^ 11. Ii]a. I Zu I Ii!.71 . Andhra Pradesh , 1 1 - 1 -2 . Bihar 14 11 - 11 3 4 2 - 2 23. Gujarat ' 2 2 ' 2 . - 1 1 - 1 -4 . Himachal Pradesh ' 1 1 ' - , 1 - '_5. Haryana 1 1 _ 1 - _ _ - _ _6. Dammu & Kashmir 2 • 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 -7. Karnataka 1 1 _ 1 - 1 1 - 18. Kerala 1 1 - . 1 -. - •— -9. Madhya Prade3h 4 4; - 4 - 2 fc 2 - 210.Maharashtra • 6 6 - 6 - - - ' -H.Or issa 1 1 - - • • , 1. • ' - -i2.Rajasthan - 2 2' • • • - 2 , - 1 - - - 113.Tamil Nadu . 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 - 114.Tripura 2 2 - 2 - 1 1 - 1i5 .U t ta r Pradesh ' 14 13 - 13 T 3 2 2 1i6.Uast Bengal 2 2 - 2 - - -UNION TERRITORIES: . • • ' .17.ArunacBal Pradesh 1 1 - 1 » 1 1 - 1 -18.Delhi > 2 2 - 2 . -. - . . Ji9.0adra & Mogar Haueli 1 1 - 1 - - - . . .
To te l l 54 12 T2
• Qrtntid Statehood u,»,r, 20,2,1967.
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GENERAL ELECTION TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1980 '
number o f G_1e c t i gn__p_Bjbit_i.°Ji3_ fiAe_dJ. j ^ 3.P.0.3 BCl °O.'.P.B-T^*-.H9 -*--1! .-H9
~'*7iqh t o u r t V and appeals i n tha Supreme Court.
(As on 31.1.1988 ) •
S.No. Mania VF "s'taVa*/"" TlB]c'Ei*on**"P*etTtT(JnV''i'n the Hig'h^Cp.uFtV.*~Appsals*"i*nJbh'ia S'upTr'eiiis ITo'uVt^, Union FTIQCT* ~^ ] p'is^ps^d^ jbjf * ' __J Pending Fi 1 ed^^.J^i^sjm^s^d^f _____7 P~o*nding
Ter r i to ry . Up o" VhV'^* WrTrig*"Yo'tal LTp7t'o"th'e"* DurThg "blalend of the ' end of thelast month month. las t month montti
LX! I'". '*2I IIIIII31111111IGI1116IIIC111111 7J111.1'io !1 I'll ZI1U" 1 . Bihar 39 28 ; - 28 11 4 3 - 3 12 . Gujarat 5 4 - 4 1 1 1 - 13. Kerala 8 8 J- ' .' ' 8 - 2 .-,. • 2 ' - 2 . -
4 . Midhya Pradesh 23 23 - • ..'•' 23 - 5 ' .5 - 5 -
5. llanipur 4 4 - . 4 - 1 1 - 1
6. Maharashtra 16 16 - . . 16 - 2 . 1 . - 1 1
7. Or issa 4 4 - * .4 -
8 . Punjab 42 41 - 4.1 1 11 9 - 9 2
9 . Rujasthan 20 18 -• 18 2 -
10. Tamil Nadu 17 17 - , . 17 11 10 10 1
11.Ut tar Pradesh 29 27 ' - 27 2 9 9 9* i2.Arunachal Pradaah 1 1 - 1 1 1 ' - 1
O 13. Go a, Daman & Oiu 2 2 - 2 - - - - - -
14.Pondicherry 1 1 - m l - • - - - . - -
TOTAL: 211 194 - 194 17 47 42 42 5
* Granted statehood w . e . f . 20.2.1987.9 Goa granted statehood u . e . f . 30.5.1987.
. . . ? - . - • . • _ • • ., ..V•',p.r!.i..i
- 45 -
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE IEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1982
Number of ?]^^^^^S^^lS3^S^}^A^^^P^^^£^i?]?3S^%r^ i n tha
(As on 31.1.1988 ) .
S.No. Name of S ta te /^ ^JPS^J-PSLF.^J-^RP^ Ad^H^.JI^iliLiL^^ti^'^jSSp^pX^iJ? thgl s'uprjeme _Cpur.tAUnion F i lod_ ^ PA^RPXe~cL iOT '* 3I]_I___P e rTdiTng"" nuLecf" Disjfosecfj) f _"' ~" "PendinnT e r r i t o r y . Upt'6'"*t'hV " * * "D'u'rTng T o t a l " ' . "LTp'to" 'tnV "'" DuVi ng^fctel
end of the , end of the— _ _»' J. _' _ .. _ ^ s i iDnjri-t SPSlth _^A inorrhJ\ mojnthi. .
1 .
? .
3 .
4 .5 .
Himachal PradeshHaryanaKeralaUaat BengalN 89 al an d
12
27
15
"Q3
4
12
27
14
8
3
1227
14
8 '3
• —
-
1
1
517
4
-
2
517
4
—
2
5
17
4
TOTAL: 66, 64 64 28 28 28
- 46 -
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1983
Number of ..elect_ign j i e t i t i o n s f i l ed , disposed of^ JPJJijigh^ ~Cpup\s_,aj\d^ ajigeals^ ii\^fcha_J5u(ar^eme £0urt*.~
(As on.3i.1.1988 ) •
5. No. 'Na'm'e"o*f "state/"* Tlj __ _ _Union F i l o d ^ ^ Di^sposed o f " Pendifig TTle.d Disj?olFed~j5T~ ~ PeriT e r r i t o r y , • Upt"o the *"D'u'rThg JYbt*al Up to*, the Dur*ingnb1Hr
-s end of tha end of the__ _ ^ae^^ raorrhh. fnon^/i- . _ l i i a i .month tnpnth
II "" ~ "~ ~x_ ~ " 71 ir 11 ~3_ 1 „ . !I _ H l.5. H I A _ "7"*"" Z "" " 9 ""''"Q "" ""''"i* *"39 - 14 9 9
6 - - ' - • • * • -
. - 48 28 1 1 - 1
- 22 - 4 3 - 3
5 - - -
2 | 4 - - - - . -
14 1 1 - 1.
TOTAL: 166 136 2 138 28 20 14. - 14
1 .
2 .
3 .
4 .
5 .
6 .
7 .
Andhra PradeshAssam
Damrnu & Kashmir
Karnataka
Meghalaya
Tripur a
Delhi
396
76
22
5
4
14
396
48
22
5
2
14
( •:) I i vg
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GENERAL ELECTION TD THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE. 1984-85
fJumber of ale c t i on pe t i t i ons filed, di s posod o f pending in tha.H ip.h. Cpur^s_,ja^na^ ^PJ^eajTs^ jLn_ jjjTa^Sujajrenia.Cour iT.
(As on 31.1.1988 ) .
, 'Na'ma *o*f State"/** Tj-?^K°JLS^.^J^.?Asi AQ.J^Union FilocT*, 7.1 PA£l^°s*e]c[ 1°X^"1!UI1_Ter r i t o ry . Upt'o'"VhV"'*"D'u'rTng ""foTaTT*
end of ' the Vl a s t
1 . Andhr a Pradesh2 . Assam3. Bihar4 . Gujarat5. Haryana6. Darnmu & Kashmir7. Karnataka8 . Kerala9. Madhya Pradesh10.Maharashtrai i . O r i s s a12.Pun jabi3.(Jt tar Pradesh14.West Beng-alUNION TERRITORIES:15 . L ak a h adue ep.
52522
•211 ,2212
156
116.Dadxa & Nagar Havsl i 117.Delhi 4 .
412121
1211
122
113
month-"5
Fiie~cf T^^sp^s^BjJ^0.t_ ^ _*LTp'to"'tnV' During Tbtelend of thei»e>h mnnth month
412121
1211
132
113
1131
11
224
3
1
2
1 2
1
1
TOTALS 54 35 36 18, n f.
13
.87 .
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' - •. GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1984
Number of plscti.on^jiBti.tisijna^J'i-^-ejij^jjlsJlPJLPJi.JPJu. Pending i n the
(As on. 31.1.19B8 ) •
3. No. 'Name *oT StaVe*/** ]^*C^X^!*CP^Xti?l"A^ri3A? H^tCpJ^Ss* *'~iS2p^0il"iJl^hJ^ujpr^ma'Union Filocf^, „ . 1 Disposed pJF'*** _P~Gnding Tiie.d Di*spoTs cr'aO_f'_ ~ PendtnoTe r r i t o r y . Upt'o''*thV **'*t)urThg "Yoial LTpto''tlie Dur'ing^Eilal
ond of the ' end of the__ l as t ronnf.h, month... J-iisi jnnnth month
~.'X"... **". ™2~ ~ " 1 1 1 1 3 I Z I ? .1* l'_" Z5Z _. _ T6Z _ ZTI ~ I Z 2 Z _ ...9_'Z >. Z1S Z Z13 Z Z1?Z"4 1 2 - - 21 3 - - . . . . . .
1 - 1 - 11 _ -
• * • - ' 1 -
TOTAL: 12 8 - C 4 3 - ' _ - 3
* * Granted Statehood u.e.f. 20.2.1987.3 Goa granted statehood u.e.f, 30.5.1987. '
1 .2 .
• * 3 .
a 4.• * 5 .
Tamil NaduMan ip urArunachal PradeshGo a, Daman & OiuMizoram
54
1
1
1
4
1
1
1O1
- 49 -
GENERAL ELECTION TO THE l£ GISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1985
Number of a l e c t i o n petit_iq_nsa ^filed^ ..disPtQ3ocl ^of pending in thaHAh A i X i j y S J ^ t
o n 31.1.1988 ) •
Ber.<5 iff thg SuHrj^ma^J^qurt..'s.*No» 't-ja'nie Vf Sta'tV/"* X^J.->. ~ , »...- .Union VTlecT* ~'~~] pTsjioVeU jpY.J; ]_ Pending.T e r r i t o r y . . Up'to" "t'hV *~"Dli'rThg TotfiX" % Upto' the Durini
end of the f • end of thel o s t nwirrhh month*^ __^-ii-'3i I0OrVk,!l .month __ _
IX" ~ ""• ~2~ "" '•"- HI III H ~3- - 1 . ? 1 1 - ~5- H 1 H6~ Z ™TZ ~ ~z I S ' 9_ Z 1 S .1 ZM Z Z1.?..- ' 2 6
•" 1 ••
2
1
2 6
• - - 3
• - 2 7 .
20
.2
2 2 5
1
2 11
1. Andhra Pradesh
2 . Assam
3. Bihar
4. Gujarat
5. Himachal Pradesh
6. Karnataka
7. Maharashtra
8. Madhya Pr adssh
9. Orissa
10.Punjab
1I.Rajasthan
12.Sikkim
I3.llttar Pradash
14.Pondich9rry
17
• 4
45
9
12
26
26
54
8
12
24
2
74'
1
•17
1
15
6
12
19
22
. 47
8
•-.10
15
2
39
1
171
15
6
12
't?
22
47
8
10
15
2
40
1
—3
. 30
3
7
4
• ' 7
2
9
•
34
8
1C
M'
. 1
" • * " • • " • 8 • . ' . • '
- 3
9
20
2
' ' - ; .7
1
13
m
2
1-
-
2
2
**
-
-
2m
TQTAUi 314 214 215 99 76 •11
- 50 -
STATEMENT, T J'X
GENERAL E1E CTIONS TO THE t£GISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES, 1987
Number o f pj.e^j.^^etj.tions^ _f J I R d , disp^sod.qf» pending i n tha
(As on • 31.T. 1988 )•
S.No. Name of State/1* "Tl_ec€Lor^ JPjatJ.tTojns^ _i_n \ho J{iojT._f qurj;_3• j£ppQp%j£ ij5^itlSl-FyS?'"^!!^JzSfuSji.Union Fi-ToJ^ __ Oi^sposed cTJF*" * ^Ponding T i i e ^ ^ irs£>oJi3cr_pT_<-_>i • t )^ : 'T e r r i t o r y . Upt'o'Yh'e "Du'fThg T o t a l '• u'pt'o''thY 6u*r*ing
and of the end of ' the__ __ l^jst mnnjhh m.Dnth_» . . _J-i is i jnonth month
_J^... ~ —2 — — — — ~2~' "* ^ '" — ' 5"" " — —6 Y T ^ *3 , 9 ~' ""i'o ""
1 . Haryana . 132 . Jammu 4 Ka^i mir 213. Kerala 174 . 'Usst Bengal -
12
1220
5
TOTAL! 51 13 14 37
STMTE/JENT - X
STATEMENT 5H0UING PERIODS FDR UHICH ELE:TIONPETITIONS IN THE HIGH COURTS AND APPEALS INTHE SUPREfiE COURT OF INDIA ARE PENDING.
S.I
1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 .10111213141516171819202122
UN
1 .2 .3 .
* * 4 .<3 5.
6 .7.
Mo. Name of S ta te /Union Terr i tory
1 .
Andhra PradeshAssamBiharGujaratHaryanaHimachal PradeshOammu & KashmirKarnataka ' • :K er al a
.Madhya Pradssh
.Maharashtra• Nanipur ..Meghalaya.Nagaland• Orissa.Punjab.Rajasthan.Sikkim-.Tamil Nadu• Tripura.Uttar Pradesh.Ueat Bengal
ION TERRITORIES:'
arunachal PradeshDelhiLakshadueep 'Flizor amGo a, Daman & Diu
La' 1
HC2 .
__
12_
20_ •
5_
—
——-_ -__——-
-_
Dadra 4 Nagar HaveliPondicherry
TOTAL:
—
37
,,s thanyear
SC3 .
5_1—
1' - _
3132-_-1 .
- -5_ '2—6-
_ _-
30
Between Between1-2 years 2-3.
HC SC4 . 5 .
3
311 -5 -
4 - :.— - —— . •. i — .,
- 1 6 .5
— —— —— —
1_ __ _— : —_ _- -
4-
1._ _— ' —— * —
— —- ' —
4 40
: HC6 .
1_
334
. —_1
. 18_
* . 7 -- 5- 3•. —. -
—1 41 9. —• 1.. -
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CHAPTER-V
VACANCY STATEMENTS
At t h t end of January, 1988, there uere tw0
vacancies i n the Counci l of S t a t e s . There uere ten
vacancies i n the House of the People and 17 vacancies
ir> the d i f f e r e n t L e g i s l a t i v e Assemblies. These vacancies
do not include 22 vacancies a r i s i n g out of the d i s q u a l i -
f i c a t i o n of FILAs o f Punjab L e g i s l a t i v e Assembly and
2 vacancies a r i s i n g out of . expuls ion o f two mambers of
Pondicherry L e g i s l a t i v e Assembly. There uere 104
vacancies in the Legislative Councils of different
States. •
Details of the vacancies are shounin the annexure
(Annexure-I ). Details of elections declared void by
the concerned High Courts and cases of expulsions/
disqualifications pending in the High Courts/Supreme
Court are shoUn in the Annexure-II.
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TOTAL NUMBER OF SCATS IN COUNCIL OF STATESANO LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS AND VACANCIES.
S.No.&Union
Name of Stata/Territory
CouncilTotal
(As
of StatesVacant
C R
on 31.1.
LeqislTotal
1988)
ative CouncilVacantC R
I.Andhra Pradesh2.Arunachal Pradesh3.Assam
5.Gujarat6.Gca7. Haryana8.Himachal Pradesh9.3ammuiKashmir
lO.Kar.nataka11.Kerala12.Madhya Pradesh13. Maharashtra14.Manipur1 5.f)egh<?laya16,1*11 zdr am1 i g18.0rissa19.Punjab20.Rajasthan21.Sikkim22.Tamil Nadu23.Tripura
. 24.Uttar Pradesh25.Uest BengalUNION TERRITORIES1.AndamaniN.Islands2.Chandigarh3.Dadra & N.Haveli4.0glhi '5.Lakshdueep6.Pondicherry
;7.Daman i Diu
1817
2211
153
• 412
91619
1111
107
101
181
3416
1
3m
1
96
3663
78
1 34
61 21
108 39
233 381* 102
C=Casual vacancies. .R=Uacancies dua to refciramant,NBrOstails of vacancies are shoun in the enclosed statement
(Annaxure-I)
* Total seats includa membar3 nominated by Governor concerned*.
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TOTAL NUMBER OF SEATS IN THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLEAND STATE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES AND VACANCIES
(As on 31.1.1988 )
S".N*o7 "Name" o"f~sFat"e7 "HoUse" o~f~t he "People" Legrsra~i~e~A'ssembi7_ . Union_TBr_ritory_ Ja ta.1 _ _Vacan t Jota^ Vacan_t_
~ n _ ~ 7. ~ _ ]?._ ~ _ _ ?., ]>• ~ ""_"§•_ _"_"1 . Andhra Pradesh ' 42 • - 294 .. -2 . Arunachal- Pradesh 2 - ^ 30 -3 . Assam 14 "• - 126 14 . Bihar 54 1 324 , 15 . Gujarat 26^ 1 182 16 . Go a 2' - 28 -7 . Haryana •• 10 2 . 908 . H imacha l Pradesh 4 68 -9 . Dammu & Kashmir 6 1 7 6 *ip.Karnataka 28 • - 22411.Kerala 20 1 140i2.Madhya Pradesh 40": . - 320 313.Maharashtra 48 \ - 288 •14.f1anipur 21 - 60 -15.Meghalaya 21 - 60 -16.Mizoram 1 - 4017.Nagaland 1 ' 1 60 -18.0rissa 21 - 14719.Punjab 13' - 117 32O.Rajasthan 25 1 200 12i.Sikkim 1- . - 32 ' - • '22.Tamil Nadu 39 , - 234**23. Tr ip ur a 2 '- . 6*0 124.U'ttar Prads* 85^ 2 425 2 .25.West Bengal 42 - 294 2UNION TERRITORIES:
1 . Andaman & N.Islands 1 - - -2 . Chandigarh 1 - - -3 . Daman & Diu 1 - - -4 . Dadra & Nagar Havel i . 15 . Delhi 7 - 56H 16 . Lakshadueap fS - - -7 . Pondicherry 1 - 30 1
TOTAL: 5H 10 4001 17
* Excluding 24 seats earmarked for Pakistan occupied te r r i to ry ,* * Assembly dissolved. fi
® Metropolitan Council Constituencies.NOTE: Details of vacancies are sho^n in the statement
enclosad (Annaxure-I). '
•jr.
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VACANCIES IN PARLIAMENT AND STATE LEGISLATURES
ANNEXURC-I
(As on 31.1 .1988 )
Fame of" S~tate/"" f\!o"."*o"f" "NO.& " FTam~e^8£.ri^P.rXL _s e .aJts £ ^ iT. 2• 3•
"c"au38~bF "" Data o~f"vacancy vacancy
- - 4 7 .5-.- -
Data ofpo l l
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1 . Bihar 1 By MLAs
2 . Uest Bengal 1 By CILAs
1 . Bihar
2. Gujarat
3. Haryana
1'
2
4* Jammu & Kashmir 1
S. Kerala 1
6» Nag aland 1
7. Rajasthan 1
8. Uttar Pradesh 2
38-3asaram(SC)
18-Godhra
6-fari'dabad
B-Udhampur
4-* C a l l GUt
N ag e l an d
21-Pali
56-Allahabad
81-Baghpat
COUNCIL OF STATES
Death
Death .
16.1.87
22.8.87
HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE
De ath
Dsath
Death
Death
Oe ath
Death
Ragn.
Da ath
Regn.Death
31.7.86
20.11.87
30.10,87
18.12,87
27.11.87
22.10*17'
3.12.B?
10.3.87
23.7.87
29.5.87
The Commission decided not 'tof i l l the ssat as tha termexpires on 2.4.1988
Election Peti t ion panding -However, summary revisionordered with 7.3.88 ;.a thadate of f ina l publication.
Summary revision of ro l l sordered with 7.3,88 ,13 tha datof final publication.
Con t i i .
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Legislative Councils
RetiredI.Bihar 34 (A l l the 34 seats tobe f i l l e d from local . .
authori t ies'•const i tuencieseve vacant.)
PatnaL.A.Nalanda L.A.Gaya L.A. * '
v . Aurangabad L.A.Nauada L.A. •Bhojpur L.A.Rohtas L.A.Saran L.A.Siuan L.A.Gopal Ganj L.A.Uast Champaran L.A,'East Champaran L»A.Nuzaffarpur L.A.Vaishali L.A. . /Si tamer hi L.A.Darbhanga L.A,Hadhubani L.A,Samastipur L.A.Monghyr L.A.Begusarai-cum-Khagaria L.A,Bhaoalpur L.A.Purnea L.A.Katihar L.A. .Santhal Parganas L.A.(2 seats)Hazaribagh L.A.Gi r id ih L.A.Pa la ma u L.A,Ranchi L.A,(2 seats)Dhanhad L.A.Singhbhum L.A.(2 seats)dadhepura L.A,
11 membersre t i red on6.4.78, 11membersre t i red on31,5.80 and12 membersretired on6.5.82,
Biennial electionsto ba hold only afterlocal bodies havebean reconstituted*
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1
2.Karnataka
€{
21 ( All tha 21 seats to bo Retiredfilled from localauthorities' constituenciesare vacant.)
Bidar L.A.Gulbarga L.A.Bijapur L.A..Belgauin L.A. (2 seats)Uttara-Kannada L.A.PDharuad L.A. (2 seats)Raichur L.A. ' v
Bellary L.A.Chitradurga L.A,Shimoga L.A.Dakshina-Kannada L.A.Chickmagalur L.A.Hassan L.A.Turnkur L.A.Mandya L.A.Bangalore L.A.Kolar L.A.Kadagu L.A. ,,>
.Mysore L.A.
2 Aurengabad-cum-3alna L.A, RetiredThare. L.A. Retired
(Both the seats to befilled from localauthorities.)
7 membersretired on1.-7.78-, 7membersretired on14.5.BO and7 membersretired on11.6.82.
7.7.825.12.86
Certain local bodiesyet to be constituted,Tha Commission hasdecided to holdelection only afteral l local bodies are >constituted.
The programme to holdthe election has notyet been fixed.
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1
4.Uttar Pradesh 39 A l l the 39 seats to ret i red 26 members ret i red - Recons t i t u teauthor i t i e s ns f f tuanc ies on 5.5.80 and 13 of local bodiesare vacant.) • members ret i red auaitedV
on 5.5.82.Tehri Garhual L.A.GarhUal t .A . "Kuinaon L.A.flora da bad-Bi jnor L.A.Rampur-Qareill'ey L.A,
* Badaun L.A. •. Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur L.A.
Harrioi L.A.• Khsri L.A. .
Sitspur L.A. 'Lucknou-Unnao L.A, ,Rae Bareli L.A. . .Pratapgarh L.A.Sultanpur L.A, .Bara Banki L.A. ' . ^ >. ' ' . 'Gonda L.A. • .> * •Faizabcd L.A,Basti L.A. •Gorakhpur L.A. ' ,• . •Deoria L.A. - •Azamgarh L.A. • •Ball ia L.A.Ghazipur- L.A.'Daunpur L.A, . \Uaranasi L.A.Mirzapur L.A.Allahabsd L.A,Banda-Hamirpur L.A, ' . .Ohanai-Dalaun-Lalitpur L.A,Kanpur-Fatehpur L.A.Etauah-Farrukhabad L.A,Agra L.A.
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Uttar Pradesh(Contd.) Plathura-EtawaMainpuri L.A.(2 seats)A l i ga rh L.A.Bulendshahr L.A.Mearut-Ghaziabad L.A.Nuzaffarnagar L.A.Saharsnpur L.A,
Retired
3a
Bi
Kc
1 .
2 .
3 .
4 .
:mr>u&Kashmir
_HJA.t_ VAj:AN CJEEjS. he r
rnataka
kssam
Bihar
Gujarat ^
tfadhya Pradesh
6
1
1
.1
1
1
3
2 By Kashmir Panchayat2 By 3ammu Panchayat1 3ammu L.A.1 Kashmir L.A.
By members
By members
Death
Death
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES22-5almara (3 outh)
29b-Chaibassa(S7)
41 riaha "
9-Gohad16-La3hikar East
274-Indara-V ®
Electiondeclaredvoid
— do —
Death
DeathDeathRnsg.
28.10.87}22.10.87'20.11.87f23.11.87 ;
25.1.68
13.11.87
15.12.87
9.12.87
1.1.88
18.7.873.6.8725.2.87
Reconstitution of-local bodies auaited.
CEO has been requested tosand programme for summaryrevision of electoral, rolls,
Summary revision ordered*
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Summary revision of rollsin 19B8 uith 7.3.88 asdate of final-publicationorderad by the Commission,dElaction Petition pending.
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5.Punjab
6.Ra jasfehan
7. Tamil Nadu
8.Tripura 1
9.Utta r Pradesh 2
lO.Usst Bengal 2
11.DelhiMetropolitanCouncil)
12*Pondicherry 1
__T __12-Beas31-DallandhurCentral
1 25-Khetri
DeathDeath
Death
Death
28.4.862.5.86
15.3.87
22.5.87
Assembly dissolved on 30.1.1988
51-Fatikroy Election countermanded
133-Tanda Death 13.1.87403-Chaprauli Death 24.10.8710-Kumargram Death 4.12.87
258-Barabani Death 14.12.87
1 11 Malviya Nagar Death 30.7.67
25-Ueravy Grand Death 9.11.87Adle3 , *
I t has been decided not.to hold bys-«l3cticns nouin view of prevailing lauand1 order situation in theState.
Summary revision, of rol lshas been ordered- byCammisa ion.
Summary revision of ro l lsin 1988 u i th 7.3.88 as dateof f ina l publication orderedby :the Commission,
Summary revision of ro l ls in1988 ui th 7.3.88 as data off ins l publication has' beenordered.
_ " 1 ~ .. . . . . . '
STATEMENT SHOWING DETAILS OF ELECTKNS DECLARED VOIDBY THE HIGH COURTS AND UHERE THE ORDERS HAVE BEENSTAYED BY SUPREME COURT.
S . N o . 4 Name o f C o n s t i t u e n c y Cause Date o f » Remarks_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ' _ _ „ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ v a c a n c y _ • _ _ _ _ _ _ . _ _ _
_ 1 _ 2 3_ 4 . _5
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES '
AKDHRA PRADESH . •1 . 2 5 6 - D a g t i a l Election dsclarod void. 10.6.86 > -Supreme Court granted
stay against High Court'sorder on 30.6.BG.
MAHARASHTRA2. 151-Armorio(ST) " Election declared void. 30.11.85 Suprsme Court granted stay
against High Court's order
MADHYA PRADESH o / on 3 0 . 1 1 . 8 5 . .
3 . 14-Lahar : : Death 17.2.86 Stay granted by. .. Supreme Court'.
t't,
contd.'...
- ' 6 2 . -
PUPOAB4.23-Taran Taran5.35-Nakodar6.54-Raikot7.77-Nabha8.E&-Sunam9.89-Lahra
10.102-Panjgrain (SC)'11.103-Kot Kapura12.106-Gidderbaha13.110-Pakka Kalan(SC) '1A.117-Sardulgarh '
15.56-Ui la Raipur16.G9-KlTarar17.61-Pa yal18.7 5-Samana19.7 2-Ghanaur20. Hk-Natharu(SC)21.79-Sirhind22.20-Ajnala23.74-Shutranan(SC)24.64-Khanna(SC)25.66-Anandpur Sahab
RAJAS THAN26.ED-Karoul i
27.183-aodhpur
Disqualified
Disqualified
Election declaredvoid
Election declaredvoid
22.10.85
18.2.87
2.5.1987 ,
4.5.1987 ,
Matter ponding in Supreme Court'
Platter pending in Supreme Court.
Stay granted by the High Court
con td . . •« •
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UiTAR PRADESH2b. 251-Rariahu
?9. 34 5-Saki t '
"T'NDICHESftYiO. 6-Orlsampath:, 1 . 1O-Embalam(SC)
:'2. 2 se^ts fromBombay l o c a lauthorities.
Electionvoid.Electionvoid.
ExpelledExpelled
$ Electionsjj void.8
declared
declared
X
LEGISLATIVE
declared
2 1 . 1 .1 3 . 1 .
18.1218.12
COUNCIL
24.10
8787
.86.86
. 8 5
1)$8
-
Appeal f i l l ed inSupreme Court.StayorderCourt.
Stay granted byHigh Court
' Appeals f i led inSupreme Courts
* * * * # * #
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CHAPTER- »T
BYE ELECTIONS TO LEJ I5L AT I I'E ASSEr.tiLIES
(a) Bye-election to the Assam Legis lat ive Assembly.
A vacancy uas caused in the Assam Legislat ive
Assembly on 9.12.1986 bus to the resignation of his seat
by Shri HitesUar SaiKia representing- 104-Kazira assembly
constituency on his appointment as Lt.Governor of Hizoram,
The electora l r o l l of the said constituency uas
revised summarily y i t h reference to 1.1.1987 as the
qual i fy ing date and f i n a l l y published on 30th A p r i l , 19E7O
The fol lowing programme uas f ixed for holding the
bye-e lect ion: •
1.Issue of noti f icat ion 23.11.1987(donday)
2.Nominations 30.11 .1987(Monday)
3.Scrutiny . . 1,12.1987(Tuesday) •
4.Uithdraual 3.12.1997(Thursday)
5 .Po l l , i f necessary ' . • 23.12.1987(Uednesday)
6.Completion 26.12.1987(Saturday)
Hours of pol l uere from 7.30 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.
There were 12 validly nominated candidates, out of
whom 3 withdrew their candidatures leaning 6 in the f i e l d .
The Commission appointed Shri K.S.Puri Financial
Advisor, N.E.Council as a Central Observer, in addition to
a State Govt. officer Sh.P.S.Rajkoua to observe pol l and
counting.
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T;iG counting of votes uas taken up on '24.12.19S7,
The counting uas progressing in a peacsful -.i---.---?-
atmosphere in the counting Hall t i l l afternoon.
There after there uere djsturbancss .inside
the' counting hallf.uhsn there were allegations
of de struction of ballot papers. The Returning
Officer suspended counting Commission directed
that counting may be resumed on 30,12,87 in the
presence of Shri K,S,Puri,Commissions' observer and
an officsr of the Commission who uas deputed for thi3
purpose. There were further disturbances on that day
also and Commission directed for resumption of counting
on 6th January,1988 for which a team of Officers under
the leadership of Sh.CiL.Rose, secretary uas'sent.
At the time the counties uas disrupted, counting
had been completed i .respect of 76 'out of the to ta l
of 89 polling stations,. Under- the supervision °f t n e
Commission's team, the Returning Officer took up the
counting of the remaining 13 polling stations after
making adequate security arrangements.' Uh-sre the
records uere available and tha ballot papers uers intact*
counting uas done and 'induced ' in the result sheet.
Repoll uas oraered in respect of 4 polling stations,
uhere the ballot paper account and the other relevant
records and/or ths ballot papers wars not available,
Repoll uas taken on the 9th and the counting uas taken
up on 10th January,88, Sh.Tanu Konusr of Asom Gana
Pa.rishad uas declared elected. Detailed result of th.e
e-lection is annexed as Annexure-I,
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(b)BYE-CLECTIDMS TO AN3HRA FRA3ESH LEGISLATIVE
ASSZf-oLY.
Two vacancies occured in the Andhra Pradesh
Legis la t ive Assembly. Trie f i r s t vacancy was from
146-Vayalpad assembly constituency due to the death
of Sh.N.Arr.arnath Ready on 13th ju ly,19B7. The other
vacancy from 135-Srikalahasti assembly con±ituency
uas caused due to declaration of elect ion of Sh.,I*luniraraaiah
Satravad as void by the/ Andhra Pradesh High Court.
The r o l l s of a l l the assembly constituencies
i n Andhra Pradesh were revised summarily in 1587,
The bye-elections uere held on the basis of those
ro l ls .
The bye-elections from both the constituencies
uas hsid as per the following programme —
( i ) Date of issue of not i f icat ion:, 18.12.1987(Friday)(i i)Last date for making '
nominations: 26.12.1S87(Saturday)
(ii i) Date for scrutiny ofnominations: 28.12.1987((ylonday)
\ i v ) Last date for withdrawalof candidatures: 3D.12.1987(Uednesday)
(v) Date on which a pol l shalli f necessary be taken 20.1,1988(uednesday)
(v'i) Date before which theelection shall be completed 23.1.1988(Ssturday)
Hours of pol l was fixed from 8.00am to 4.00 pm.
Sh.N.P.Singh,Dt.Secretary, Border Roads Orgn,, Ministry
of Defence uas appointed as observer for 135-Srikalahasti
assembly constituency and Sh. Ranjit Singh, 3oint SBcratary,
Ministry of Environment Forssts & 'Jild Lifa Was appointed
as observer for 146-Uayalpsd asssrnbly constituo ncy .
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-I. There were 12 validly nominated candidates,
out of which 7 contested the election from 146-Vayalpad
assembly constituency. In the 135-Srikalahasti
assembly constituency, there wars 17 validly nominated
candidates out of which only 8 contested the election,
Shri Chenchu Reddy Tatiparthy of INC was declared
elected from 135-Srikalahasti assembly constituency
and Sh.C.Rafnachandra Reddy of TOP was declared elected
from 146-Vayalapad assembly constituency.
Detailed result of both the bye-elections i3
annexed as Annexure II and I I I .
• * * # . * *
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flNNEXURE-I.
STATE . : Assam .
104-Nazira "ssembly Constituency
In t h i s cons t i tuency a vacancy uas caused on 9.12.1986
by. the r e s igna t i on of Shri Hitesuar Sa ik ia .
Resul t ofbye-e lec t ion 1938
Result ofGeneral Elect ion 1985%
Date of dec l a r a t i onof result:
Electorate
Votes polled
Valid votespolled
67,61547,181
45,912
Rejected votss: 1,269
65205
48133
453752758
73.82
69.59
5.73
Contestingcandidates
Party Votespolled %
Contesting 'candidates
VotesP§rty polled %
1. Tanu Kontrer AGP 21603
INC* 203892. Rohitesuar
Saikia
3 . Drupad •Borgohain CPl 2797
4 . Sukurnar
Ghatuar 3NP 3765. Rajib Kakati INO 209
6. Surendra NathSik INO 38
1.Hitesuar Saikia INC
t 2.Tanu Konuer AGP1 3 .Sukumar G h a t u a r 3NPr
, 4.Rajib Paniphukan IC5
' 5.Surendra Nath INO
6.Bhadrssua Konuer INO
25360
17089
1234
945
391
306
55
37
2
2
0
0
. 8 9
. 6 6
. 8 3
. 0 8
. 8 6
. 6 7
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STATE Pradesh
CONSTITUENCY
In'this constituency -3 vjcancy was caused o?P hY reason ofcx election o f ^ » f .'ari/sffi^ Muni ram a Satr'avad'~a. mgnber
" " bj l f. ^
- to that" "assembly from 135. Srikalahasti constituency havinq beendeclared void. -
ResJIt of3ye-e lect ion • %
Result ofGeneral • %Election
Date of declaration 01Electors on the rqll :
Electors who voted :.* Valid votes polltd :
Rejected votes • :
result:21.
1,26,35093,79592,438
1,357
• Contesting candidi Party Votes-dates' " '" . .
r • -~ . _ 2
I.Chenchu ReddyTatiparthy INC
2.Kondugari Sree-', rama Nurthy TOP3.Guduri Sarvesuara
Rao • INO4.Esuara Rsddy
Vayyala INO5.Penchalaiah Edem INO6.8agalkot Rama
Rao IMO•7.Penchalaiah
Kayyuri INO8.0alauai Kannaiah IND
polled
3
-
47,984
• 43,565
263
227
113
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94
86
1.88 . . .
%
i.
i . •
1/26,33995,497 "94,364
1,133
Contesting Candi-dotes "•
i
l i Muniremaiah ''Satraveda
2. Chenchu ReddyTatiparthi
3. Pull Subbaranv-. aiah •
4. Vetti Muraguiah
. • -
Party Valid' votes %palled
" 2 3 4
TCP 46,721
INC 46,641
' • • * *
IND_ 756
lira 246 •
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STATc
_A£ Si-. "S L Y/ pARL JAmiNT<CONSTITUENCY
In t h i s - cons t i t uency a vacancy was caused on ,by the _ of Shr i / imt . _ v _ ,-»-.-yri98T
RSSJI- ' : of
[5 ye - e l e c t ion
Result ofGeneral _ %Election
Date of declaration o
Electors on the roll
Electors who votedValid votes polled :
Rejected votes
Contesting candi-i p.j-dates
1 2
I.Chinthala Raraa-chandra Reddy
2.Nallari Sarojarama
3.Guduri SarvasUaraRao
4*Kommu Cllaiah5.T, V. S. Pothanna6*Asadi Uankatadri7.5.Krushna Nurthy
i result: '21.1.
' 1.1O.4 22
81,64079,7G1
rtv Votes• poll jd %
-3 . / 4_
TOP 4 1 , 0 0 1
INC 3 7 , 7 3 9
INO 359
IKD 292
INO 215
IMD 9 7 !
INO 78
L9O8
1,1OOO3
83,834
— 1 . •!- - 1- ^ "1 l i l J»
• '• 1 1 3 4
Contesting Candi Pa-i-dates s ' -.
•1 2
^maranatha Ret-clyr.'allarl IK^"
G. V. Sj^eenatha
Kopuru Hitesoln Sab IMD
Vaainuru Kri'slinew"fttjct^y. Devajra IKD
V«nul3 Sudarsanera IKD
Assdl Venkatadri IRD
Kodathan Chengaira-
....
t y Validvotes %polled
3 4
46122
3464O
14O6
515
392
298
149
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CHAPTER-UII
IMPOSITION OF PRESIDENT'S RUL£, IN TAHIL NADU
-A general e lec t ion to cons t i tu te a neu Legis la t ive
Assembly of Tamil Nadu uas held in December, 1984 alonguith
the general e lec t ion to the House of the People. AIADFK
had secured 132 out of the t o t a l of 234 seats and i t s leader
Shri M.G.Ramachandran uas i n s t a l l e d as the Chief Minister ,
The f i r s t meeting of the assembly uas held an 25th February,
1985 and as such i t s term could have extended upto-24th
February, 1990.
After the death of Shri F).G.Ramachandran on 24th December,
1987, there uas a s p l i t in the AIAOPK. There uere two groups -
one led by Srnt.Janaki Ramachandran and the other byPliss CJayalalitha.
Both these groups staked the i r claims to form the Government.
The Governor Shri S.L.Khurana uanted to verify the i r respec t ive
claims. Ths group led by Smt. Danaki Ramachandran paraded before
the Governor 97 fiLAs ouing al legiance to her . As the t o t a l
membership of AIADPK at that time uas 131 and the Dayalali tha
faction did not parade the FILAs supporting her group, the Governor
i n s t a l l e d Smt. Danaki Ramachandran as the Chief minister on
7th 3artuary 1988. However, he had asked Smt.Oanaki Raraachandran
to prove her majority on the Floor of the House as ear ly as
poss ib le . After consulting a number-of experts on Const i tu t ional
on the subject , ths Governor came to the conclusion tha t i t
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uas enough for the nsu Chiaf flinister to obtain a simple
majority of the members present and voting to continue in power.
The .Assembly was summoned on the 25th and the vote of
confidence uas fixed-for the 28th January, 1988. The House
met at 10 a. tn t ,but uas adjoorned by the Speaker to 3'p.mo
Again i t uas adjourned, In the meantifne) the Speaker disqualif ied
33 FlLAs under the Anti-Oefaction Act. Uhen the House met there
uas complete pandemonium and police had to be called inside the
House and there uere also reports of la th i charge on P1LA3. •
Thereafter on the basis of a report by the Governor that the
administration of the StHC&t cannot be carried on in accordance
ui th the provisions of the Constitution, the President dismissed
the Ministry and dissolved, the State Legislative Assembly under
Ar t ic le 356 of the Constitution on the 30th January, 1988.
This uas the third time that the-Tamil Nadu assembly uas
dissolved. Earlier the assembly uas dissolved in 1976 and
1980.
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DISSOLUTION OF APHLC AND REGISTRATION OF ALL PARTY.-• HILL LEADERS' CONFERENCE (ARl'IISON HriRAK GKS-UP). - >
Dr .Mi l ton S.Sangma, the than President o f A l l Party
H i l l s Leaders' Conference , a State party i n Fleghalaya.urota
to the Commission that i n the specia l session o f the party
held on 7,2.1986 i t was decided to dissolve the party and
merge i t u i t h the party H i l l People Union. He also added
that A»P.H.L.C. did not set up candidates at -the general
e lec t i on to the House of the People held i n 1984 and uas,
therefore not e n t i t l e d to continued recogn i t i on . He the re fo re !
requested that no one should be allowed to use tha name and ..
symbol 'Flower1 of the Par ty .
The claim of Dr.Sangma Group was disputed by tha group
led by Shr i Armison Piarak, uho according to the rscords o f the
Commission^was the Vice-President of the Par ty . Shr i Harak
challenged the l e g a l i t y of the special session and asserted
that the party continued to e x i s t .
On the basis Of the ev/idence adduced by the p ro -d i3so lu t ion
group* the Commission held that the A.P.H.L.C. uas dissolved
on the 7th February, 1986. I t ,however, allowed the group
led by Shri flarak to funct ion as _a reg is tered unrecognised
party under the name and s ty le -of A.P.H.L.C. (Armison Flarak
Group) vide i t s order dated the 1st January, 1988, which i s
reproduced i n fol lowing pages. Detai led reasons for t h i 3
order w i l l be given la te r by the Commission,
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In re,: ^11 Party Hi l l Leaders" Conference.
- 1.1. The question for determination of the Commission
is whether the ^11 Party Hill Leaderst Conference (for
short -APHLC), which is a recognised State party in
Meghalaya under the Election Symbols (Reservation and
Allotment) Order, 1968 with the symbol 'Flower1 reserved
for i t , has ce-ased to exist or is s t i l l continuing.
1.2 One of th? grouos l=d by Dr. Milton A. Sancna,
who according to the Commission's record was the president
of the Party, claims that the party was formally dissolved
on the 7th February, 1986 when a resolution to that effect
was passed at the special session of the State level
Conference of the party held at Dilma, Garo Hi l l s . This
• claim of Dr. Sangma's group (hereinafter referred to
as the 'pro-dissoluticn group1') is disputed by the
group led by 5hri Arnison Ch. Marak, who according to
the records of the Commission Was the Vice-president of
the party. (For sake of brevity, the l« t t e r group is
hereinafter referred to as the' «anti-dissolution group).
2« The determination of the above question has
• assumed urgency in view of the fact that the general
election to the Weghalaya Legislative Assembly i s due
to be called tomorrow (2nd January, 1988) by the
Governor of Meghalaya' by his notification to be
issued under section 15(2) of the Representation
of the people *ct, 1951-, Keeping the stove in view,
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the Commission held an urgent hearing in t h e n'stter
yesterday (3lst December, 1987) as i t v»as aaxious. to
decide the matter before calling of the aforesaid general
election. At the hearing held yesterday, t h e Commission
has heard in de ta i l both the r ival groups, j
3.1 " The case as made out by the pro-dissolution
group which was represented yesterday at t h e hearing by
Dr. Milton o'angma and Shri S.D.D. 'Nichols-Hoy (who
.according to the Commission's record was t h e General I
Secretary of the party) i s that a talk of unif icat ion
of APHLC with another recognised State partf i n Meghalaya,
viz.', Hill State Peoples' Democratic Party ( for short H5PQ?)
been going on since 1975 and that the unification moveh
gatered momentum after the fa l l of the APHLC-HSPQP
coalition ministry in 1983. At a special "session of
the APHI£ held at Shillong on 4-6th August, 1983,' the
party formally resolved for unification of AfHLC and
H5PDP. i t was further resolved that this decision of the
Special session should be taken toibe general nenbership
of the party at d is t r ic t / reg ion/c i rc le level for
ra t i f ica t ion . The matter was further considered by
the State level conference of the party at i t s
plenary session held at ShiTlong on 5-6 September, 1984
where i t was further-resolved that the unification of •
APHLC and HSpOP could be best effected by dissolut ion
of both the parties and formation of a new par ty . The
resolution of the State level conference held in
August, 1983 was, as decided at that session, sent to
all the five d i s t r i c t branches of the party and al l the
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said five d i s t r i c t branches rat i f ied the same. The
said ra t i f ica t ion was made by the East Khasi Hi l l s ,
Kest Khasi Hi l l s , East Garo Hi l l s , Ja in t ia Hills and
West Garo Hills d i s t r i c t branches on 28-29 October,
1983;, 7th tovember, 1983, 12th May, 1984, 4th June,
1984 and 29th September, 1935 respectively. By the
t ine the above mentioned plenary- session of the party
was held in September, 1984, four out of five d i s t r i c t
branches had already rat if ied the decision of
•unification of APHLC and H3POP. In view of the above
and in vie^ of the then ensuing general election
to .the House of the People which was held in Nbveraber-
DecFmb^r, 1984, a unified party in the nane of Hill
People Union was formed of which the APHLC became a
constituent uni t . The said general election to the
House of the People was contested by the Hill People
Union from both the Parliamentary Constitusncies. in
the State of Meghalay3. After the f i f th d i s t r i c t branch
of West Garo Hills also ratified the decision of
unification in September, 1985, the State Level Conference
of the party formally met at i t s special session held
on the 7th February, 1986 at Oilma and took the decision
to dissolve i t , as a final step, because the party had
completly merged in the Hill People Union. According
to the pro-dis sol Jtion group, Shri Armison Marak pa r t i c i -
pated in al l deliberations leading to the formation
of Hill People Union. He was also a party to the
decision taken by the '.Vest Garo Hills d i s t r i c t branch
on the 29th September, "1985 ratifying the unification
move and was also participating at that tins in the
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meetings of the Hill People Ifciion. I t was only some j
time thereafter that he f e l l out and with a few handful |
of persons started opposing the unification move. In • |
short, the case of thepro-dissolut ion group i s that the j
decision to dissolve the party was taken by the State j
level conference at i t s special session on 7th February, j
.1986 with a mandate from the general membership . |
expressed through the ra t i f ica t ion of the unification f
move by the d i s t r i c t branches of the party. That group I
contends that while taking the decision to dissolve" . i
the party they were guided by the observations and j
• the dictum of- the Supreme Court (In APHLC vs. Cspt. W.£« ',
Sangua A3R 1977 SC 2155) in the css'e of dispute of j
somavhat similar .nature in this very party which arose • s
-earlier in the year 1976 and that all the conditions -j
precedent as envisaged in the said decision of the Supreme
Court were fulfi l led before taking the final step of passin;
the formal resolution to dissolve the party-on 7.2.1986.
3.2 On the other hand, the anti-dissolution croup
which was represented at the yesterday's hearing by
Shri D.N. N'.ukherjee, Advocate,- also r e l i e s on the
above referred decision of the Supreme Court in the \
APHLC's case (supra). Their contention is that the so-
called special session of the State level conference of •
the party held on 7th February, 1986 had no mandate of the
general membership to decide about the party 's dissolution.
- I t i s further contended by then that the party
constitution does not make, any provision for i t s
dissolution end that there has been no rat i f icat ion by
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the general membership of the party of the decision
taken at the above referred special session held on
7.2.1986. to dissolve the party. Thus, they Claim-that
the party s t i l l continues to exist and function. '
4. I have examined and analysed very Carefully
the whole matter, As has already been mentioned above,
there is urgency for deciding the present matter in
view of the' General Slection to the L!egh3laya Legislative
Assembly, the process whereof is scheduled to ccacence
tomorrow (2.1.1988). Therefore, I propose to pass a
brief order and detailed reasons for my order to follow
as hereunder will be given lat ter . - ' • ." . ,.
5. Cn the basis of the evidence adduced by the
pro-dissoluticn group, I an satisfied that this group
has laid sufficient foundation to substantiate their
claim that the party has been dissolved on the'7th
Febrary,l986. To briefly men'tibn . some- of the salient
points, the unification move, was initiated and approved
by the State level conferences? the party in 1983 and
thereafter for a sufficiency long period of nearly
2% years the matter was debated and deliberated upen
at the district levels representating the general memberehi;
of the party. These district branches have ratified the
resolution of unification on different dates spanning over,
as mentioned above, a period of more than two years.
During all this period and even t i l l today, the C-orcmissicc
has not heard even a single voice of dissent frca any
of the four districts in the State, banely, S33t khasi
Hills, ".Vest Vila si Kills, Sast Garc Kills and Jaintia Hills.
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I t is only from a very few persona in the Vest Garo.
Hills district that the Commission has received certain
confflunicaticnj, which showed that some people in that
aiatrict were oppoaing the merger and unification more.
1 Cannot believe that the general membership of the party
in the regaining four districts has been totally unaware
. even t i l l today about the unification move or the
dissolution of the party on the passing of the resolution
dissolving i t on. the 7th February,1986. No evidence has
been adduced by the anti-disscluticn group to raisa
any doubt in ihis regard. Pertinent here to mentioD . .
. that the documents furbished-by the pro-dissoluticn group
in support of. their above claim were furnished to the
anti-c^.ssoluticn group and they *ere asked to sen& their
comments by 31st December, 1987. That group has not filed
any reply or adduced any material to dispute that poaiticn
Ih3t apart, I have also obtained independent reports free thej
Deputy Commissioners of these four districts thrcugh tha {
Chief Electoral Officer, Keghalaya and these reports alao \j
confirm the position that there ha3 been,"no activity or •' j
functioning of the party in these districts,"except in the j
district of Jaintia Hills where an ad-hoc cccnittee ia . j
said to have been formed only on 27th June, 1987. Only i
in the '.Vest Garo Kills district, a snail faction of the j
party under the leadership cf Siri Arnison llarak is said '•
to be s t i l l functioning. Here alao, that district
at first ratified the unification Dove by i t s r ec
dated 29th Saptcsbar, 1935. Eiat was well bafcre the
party passed tho fcraal resolution dissolving i t en the
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7th Februarv, 1986, as a final step. In the next piece, the
off icial documents and the records of the Meghalaya Legislative
Assembly also show and confirm the position that from 2nd
.April, 1986 onwards there is no APHLC legislature group
functioning in that House and all "the members of that party
have now become members of Hill people Union Legislature
group.
6, .After taking all available facts and circutnst arices
' into account and after hearing the representatives of both
the contending groups, I an satisfied that the exercise which
was undertaken by the pro-dissolution group in the direction
of their unification move and the consequential dissolution
of APHLC was undertaken with full awareness of the guidelines
provided by their Lordships of the Supreme Court in APHL
Conference, Shillong.V. VI. A. Sangma - AIR 1977 SG 2155, and
. tha t the said exercise was undertaken in a positively open
and well-publicised manner and that i t was spread over a
sufficiently long time sh as to afford full scope for free
deliberation and expression of opinion including dissent, As
already mentioned, the dissent has been only from'one small ..
group. I , accordingly, hold th3t the APHLC has been dissolved
on the 7th February, 1986, and has ceased to exist as a
recognised State party in the State of Meghalaya for the
purposes of the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment)
Order, 1968. I ts name and symbol 'Flower' reserved therefor
be onitted from the l i s t of recognised State parties and the
symbols reserved for then as notified in pursuance of paragraph
17(1 )(b) of the said Symbols Order.
7. Having decided the rn?in issue in favour of p^o-
dissolution croup, I feel that the demands of equity, justice
and fairpi ay would require that the anti-dissolution group
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- should also be extended some concession under the Symbols
Order. I t is not disputed that this group was a part of
the organisation which has been held by me to have dissolved i
itself in February, 1986. This group s t i l l maintains that \
i t is functionina and continuing its entity. This is alsofact ' • •
a/that this anti-dissolution group has not sudderr*ly emerged, I
and their existence atleast from October, 1935 is borne out I
by the Commission1 s own. records, when i t started receiving
the representations from them. However, £rora the evidence
adduced by this group', i t appears that i t is only a small • j
faction representing only a very small fraction of the main |
organisation. ' In support of their cla^m, they have filed I
the affidavits of two M.L.As and seven defeated candidates. j
From the official records of the Meghalaja Legislative j
Assembly, i t is observed that bne of these MLAs (Shri Meckenson
K. Sangraaj belongs to Indian National Congress Legislature • \
group and the other (Shri Crunden Sancma) is a member of the I
• Hill People Union Legislature group. Thus, their support
cannot be claimed by this anti-dissolution group of APHIC. |
Of the remaining seven defeated candidates,-one candidate,
namely, Shri Jackman .V.arak, as per his own deposition in his
affidavit has stated that he contested the 1983 general
electionithe State Assembly as an independent candidate.
Thus, his support can also not be. claimed by this group for •
the purposes of the Symbols Order. If all the regaining six
candidates are assumed to be the supporters of #gtBS' ^ ' r
the total votes polled at the last general election to the
State Assembly by the persons claimed to be their supporters
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co:ne to more than one percent of the to ta l votes polled in
; the State. JSs there is no time left now for further
verification, in the matter, I will assume ,.them to be the
supporters of th.is group. Having, regard to t h i s , I an of
the opinion that the demands of equity, justice and fairplay
would be fully met if th i s group is allowed to function as
a Registered pol i t ica l party for the purposes of the Election
Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order 1958, So that they
could contest .the coming general election to the State
Legislstive assembly as a registered^polit ical party. In
order to avoid any confusion, this party be called and
known as "All..Party Hill Leaders' Conference (Armison Marak
Group)". I order accordingly. The name of this party be
notified forthwith in pursuance of paragraph 17(l)(c) of the
. Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968. -
8. As mentioned above, the detailed reasons for th is
order will be given .\dtter. .
Naw Delhi, ; S d / ~
Deted the 1st Jan. ,1988 ' (R.V.S. PERI SASTRI") '• CHIEF ELS3TION COMMISSIONER OF i:DI,\.
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CHAPTER-IX
PRESS REPG.TT OK EH.£:TI0?,'5 i\\:Q POLITICAL SYSTEMSOF FOREIGN COUNTRIES AHO OTHER" MATTER OF INTEREST*
Dur ing the month o f January ,1988, press r e p o r t s /
articles/editorials on elections and pol i t ica l systems of
foreign countries and other matters of interest appeared
in the press« The Press-clippings and articles as are
considered to be of special interest are being reproduced
in f u l l in the follouing pages:-
Pfllte NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE
9.1.88 F.P.Journal
18O1,,88 National Herald
25.1.88 Statesman
26.1.88 Hindu
S/TOPIC
27.1.88 Indian Express
An a r t i c l e on »• dof dragging the j ud i c i a r y .
Regarding general e lect ionin Tr ipura.
Regarding merger of L iberalParty wi th SOP in B r i t a i n .
Statement of Tamil Nadu'jovernor Sn .S.L.Khur ana that
^Majority of membars presentand voting enough1 to provemajority in House.
Regarding elections i nfie-jhalaya.
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Settling political issues
iciaryThe Congiess-I leaders, who
should know better, have, alas,joined the nefarious game of seek-ing to make up lor their politicalimpotence by seeking the interven-tion of the judiciary on their behalf.as is exposed by the recentdevelopments in Anrihra Pradesh,where the Congress-! has beenreduced to utter political in-significance through its own in-competence (the Telugu Desam rulewas preceded by an extraordinary-turnover of Congress chiefministers in Andhra Pradeshdespite the Congress Party then en-joying a very comfortable majoritywithin the legislature). To seek toovercome political insignificanceand incompetence through resor-ting to court action agaisnt politicalopponents was the game played bythe politically insignificantelements headed by the late Raj
j Narain of UP to bring upon the1 country the infamous 'internal'
emergency in 1975 which dealt anear-fatal blow to the process ofpolitical modernisation of thiscountry. Through a court judge-ment. Raj Narain, an utterly in-significant person on all accountswho was incapable of gaining the
j affection of the people to win a seatin Parliament, succeeded in legal-ly sidelining from the constitu-tional structure the person who atthat time was the darling of the na-tion and who could not be defeatedin any fair election by any oneanywhere in the country at thattime (1971). The person so restrain-ed was the late Mrs Indira Gandhi,who was unseated from the LokSabha by the verdict of theAllahabad High Court on atechnical violation of the law byone of Mrs Gandhi's ' principallieutenants at that time.
The judgement against Mrs Gan-dhi was, of course, entirely correctand did great honour to thejudiciary bringing then as it did thereassurance that, like V. P. Singh,V. C. Pandeand Bhure Lai of today,the country had persons in positionwho would do their assigned dutyno matter even if the most power-ful person in the country was an-tagonised in the process. JusticeSinha of Allahabad High Courtwould always be remembered withrespect and gratitude by the peopleof this country for the razor sharp
j intellect and courage. He gave thej judgement that was called for on
the basis' of the facts presentedbefore him as all good and honestjudges are expected to do.
The point was that the matterought not to have Ivors taktm to 'he
By Subash Chandra Sarker,
court at all as it was not a problemof adjudication. Mrs Gandhi's vic-tory in the general election of 1971or at any time did not depend oncommitting any technical violationby herself or by any of her sup-porters. N'or did she nne;d any of herlieutenant's intervention on herbehalf to win the election. She wasdestined to win in 1971 whateverthe Opposition did or did not do.or whoever was her electoral oppo-nent. Once this point is concededthe enormity of the impropriety ina political democracy lo immobiliseor banish from the political processthe darling of the nation throughnon-political (even of judicial)means becomes apparent in all. itsugliness. A move through a highcourt made by the Congress-Ileaders a few years ago to preventa general election being .held inWest Bengal was fortunately quash-ed by the Supreme Court. But thereis never any guarantee of continuedjudicial wisdom for all times andunder all circumstances!
Short-cut
Thrcujh th.» short-sightedness ofthe opposition politicians, • whosought a non-political short-cut to
tgain an advantage over Mrs Gandhiin this manner, the political processwas subjected to the unnaturalcourse oi judicial control despitethe fact that politics is supreme andevery thing else in a democracy in-cluding the judiciary, which, is acreature of the political process, is.and must always be, subject topolitical (as distinct from party)convenience. Mrs Gandhi was thechoice of the oeople but the courtjudgement t dd the effect of sayingthat she was not.
No system, far less a democraticpolitical system, can withstandsuch an aberration of its processesof working: And the quarter-century-old Indian democraticstructure wilted, severely damagingthe body politic. And when thepolitical process itself suffers no in-stitution created by it — thelegislature, the executive or thejudiciary — can remain unaffected.Inevitably all the three wings of thedemocratic structure suffereddenigration and demoralisation.Parliament's own powers got cur-tailed; ?ven its proceedings couldno longer bs freely publisheddespite the fact that openness of thepolitical process is at the heart otdomrx:j7ir:y and without surh open-
ness there is no democracy.The executive was reduced to the
status of a page boy to carry out in-struction of others — not necessari-ly superiors in the administrativehierarchy but of persons who wereno part of the formal constitutionalstructure — giving rise to the fear-ful phenomenon of the operation ofwhat has"come to be known as "ex-tra constitutional authority". Thedegeneration of the executive hadreached such a state that, in hisdeposition before the Shah Com-mission, the then chief of, in-teHigence of the Government ofIndia stated that he had becomeaware of the imposition of "inter-
' nal" emergency only after the en-tire matter had been communicatedto the State Governments! Manyother top functionaries of the NewDelhi bureaucracy in theirtestimony before the Shah Commis-sion presented the pathetic state ofdegeneration that had engulfed theexecutive wing of the Government,notwithstanding the constitutionalguarantee of security of jobs with aview to securing honest and cons-cientious functioning by the topcivil servants. The executive suf-fered terrible loss of self-esteem andeffectiveness. Much of this, ofcourse, happened even before theimposition qf emergency and wasmade possible by the massive ma-jority the ruling party then enjoyedin Parliament as it does now, put-ting it beyond any politicalchallenge within Parliament — pro-viding the classic example of howthe so-called political "stability"identified with the numericalpreponderance of the supporters ofthe ruling party can at times bringabout the worst politicaldestabilisation of democracy!
Judiciary's declineJudiciary also suffered decline in-
evitably in this process of politicaldestabilisation in the wake of thejudicial restraint on the untram-melled working of the political pro-cess. The jurisdiction of courts to-take cognisance of many matterswas severely curtailed and even thepublication (why else do the courtspass verdict in the open?) of thejudgements of the courts was madesubject to executive discretion(there is no greater denigration ofthe judiciary than to subject it to.ex-ecutive supervision) so that eventhe judgement of the Bombay HighCourt condemning corruption mthe pllocdtion of plots in the
Nariman Point area in Bombay wasvirtually suppressed from thepublic, despite the overwhelmingpublic interest in the matter inBombay. The judgement, in callingupon the allottees to make largerpayments than the Government hadasked them to pay, virtually con-firmed the worst allegations andfears of impropriety about theallocation of plots in the NarimanPoint area. The first inkling of thisrevealing judgement the presentwriter got was not from anynewspaper in Bombay when thejudgement was delivered but fromthe report of a Committee of theMaharashtra legislature which waspublished after the emergency wasover.
v To oppose judicial interventionin the political process is not to en-dorse what a particular primeminister or. chief minister or anyother constitutional functionarymay be doing or not doing. So longas there is certainty of a process tochange the rulers in this country atdefinite intervals resolution ofpolitical conflicts must remain con-fined to the political arena andshould not be brought to the,
' judicial field.The courts have a difficult
choice. When the allegation isagainst apowerful functionary likethe Prime-Minister of the countryor the Chief Minister of a StateGovernment any refusal by a courtto take cognisance of the matter isliable to be interpreted by many asrepresenting collusion with themen in power — a presumptionthat may not be altogether unfound-ed. If a justice Lentin enhances thestanding of the judiciary there areothers the value of whose contribu-tion to judicial probity' is utterlyopen to question. When judges ofsuperior courts can be veryjustifiably advised to learn fromthose of junior courts — such wasthe advice openly tenderd by theeminent constitutional lawyer, H.M. Seervai, in a widely-publicisedrecent article — the courts do havea task to preserve their credibilityas independent functionaries. TheAntulay affair in Maharashtra andnow what threatens to be a similarRama Rao cffair in Andhra Pradeshis the tragic outcome of the judicialdilemma in not being able to rejectpolitical problems from the court'spurview. Herein comes the need forpolitical sagacity. Political fuc-tionaries must be capable of theneeded self-esteem to be able to-dispense with any means other thanthe political means to secure theirsupremacy. Without that wisdomthe country faces irretrievabledisintegration.
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Women's vote crucialin Tripura polls
AGARTALA^Jan. 17 (UNI)—Women voters will play adecisive role in the crucialTripura Assembly elections onFebruary 2.
Altogether6,57,622 women areexpected to exercise theirfranchise. At least one third ofthe 77 victims of tribalinsurgency in 1987 were womea
The number of women votershas increased by 1,02,489, sincethe last election, against a1.04,155 increase* in the numberof male voters, (official sourcessaid).
Of the total about 2.19.000women voters belong to thescheduled tribes and inhabit therural areas.
1 Women voters outnumbertheir male counterparts in atleast, two constituencies —Kalyanpur and Bagma (ST.). The number of women voters
in Promodenagir constituencyfrom where the State ChiefMinister, Mr. Nripen Chakra-borty, is seeking re-election is
•11,625 against "l 1.659 males..More than 3,500 women votersrepresenting the constituency
'belong to scheduled tribes. The• swing of women voters will deter:.mine the fate of the contesting
parties and independentaspirants.
Giving due weightagc to therole of the women voters, boththe Left Front and the Congress(IJ-TUJS combination havemobilised women workers bothin rural and urban areas. Hun-dreds of women workers, mainlyschool and college students withparty symbols have launched adoor to door campaign
Interestingly, the number ofwomen candidates fighting theelection is less than in 1983.Seven women candidates twoeach from CPI (M) and Congress(I), one from Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) and two indepen-dents are in the fr-\ '_.jhtwomen candidates fou«'nt theelection battle in 1983. Tn: num-ber of women candidate >ii 1977was six.
The former Maharani ofTripura Mrs. Bibhukumari Deviis contesting the prestigiousAgartala constituency on a Con-gress (I) ticket She is beingopposed by two womencandidates—one BJP and anindependent Her? main conten-der is, however. CPI (M) can-didate Manik Sarkar.
CPI (M) candidate, Mrs. Ila
Bhattacharya. contesting theBadharghat constituency, is aformer Rajya Sabha member.Mrs. Bhattacharya. general sec-retary of the GanatantrickMahila Samiti the womens fromof the CPI (M). is locked in afour-corner contest, her maincontender being Congress (I)candidate Dilip Sarkar.
Mrs. Gauri Bhattacharya.MLA. seeks re-election fromBarajala for the third time onCPI (M) ticket She is locked in afive-corner contest She is beingopposed by Congress (I) can-didate Dipakumar Roy. ChinaBin of the Janata, Sijit KumarChakraborty (BJP) and anindependent candidate, Gulin-chabdra Debnath.
Mrs. Bibha Nath, who is con-testing on the Congress (I) ticketfrom Jubarajnagar. is facing afour-corner ficht Her main con-tender is CPI (M) candidateRamkumar Nath. a minister.
Ms. Minati Roy, an indepen-dent candidate contesting thePecharihal (ST) constituency, islocked in a four-corner fight Hermain opponents are Congress(I)and CPI (M) aspirants Sushi!Kumar Chakma and MalendhanChakma. */*
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Liberal Party mergesk)il>'X IIIW!iV?
BLACKPOOL (Er.2br.il. Jan4.—}3:-r.t:-i'a LltsT*.!? drew the
iv rc'.'r? ir> ma-iive numbers
v.i this procc-« throueh. I f«<?la jrcat '•rrij-.' o: achievement. Buti» is the end of a chapter _ andpsrhapj'it is '.ni9 '"<» l>c-iin «
wi'.ti xhe waller Soe:«lParty, reportj Renter.
Tha S~P leader, Mr RobertMwclenr.an, who took over, thatman'I* after fee merger Issue*ol't h i party and the formerleader, Mr David Owen, annoujed ha v/ou'a head a breakaway
-'•• '-•- • ' - -^" .".M_- . ... potion, q'iic'.dv described thI.-isrn Party msiciy vo^d 203.). t ,. m i g r J f l c e [ . t result."JiJ for ro'itical un;on *s the So. • ,^^; „.. j T :• 1 n .— *_ . . $jV Steel gamoleQ on merge
swiftly alter gtr.eral e'.actiocalast June le£c the two parties,despite a jotnt- campaign onticket called "the alliance, withonly 22 feat.i between tti*m inthe 6X>-?eaf Parliament. The lib-erals took 17 and the SDP fiva
In. p. •ma. lve endcr.'«r;erit ofth*-lcrdvr, Mr David S'oal, who
t-d h political U;\? eti a rr.er-t'r-r. ti1-- b:^^c?t 'Ta'.nor-nj in
JS5 for rotcr , lcill 2::d Liberal
The endorsement of rr.ora than'-[%•".. to o'r.e ca:-:ly exceeded thehvo-tirird-j tiia.iociiy required for
er^er to proceed and iTiraedUa:e":y revived speeulst.on that i:.*Steel -vouid slar.d after ait iorleaficisuip ol the new party.
Djrir^ six tnonth? of some- ititr-es acrimonious nesoti. twr.s,Mr Steel p-ersistently saiS Jis wasmost unlisely to be a candidatefor that po t ailer 12 yii-j ,.!leader o£ tha Liberal5, a partyrich with a tradition o! 19Hiceruury humanism bill a frir gaforc« In 20th century poiitios.
Speaking after the vote, KrSteel raid: "I'm determined to
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MADRAS. Jan 25Tl e Tamil Nadu Governor. Mr. S L Khurana,
has said that ail the legal experts consulted by himwere uniformly of the opinion that Mrs Janaki Rama-chandran would have proved her majority in theState Assembly if a resolution seeking vote of confi-.dence is passed by a majority of members presentand voting.
In a prepared statement, read out1 at a press confer-ence this afternoon, the Governor said
In the press communique issued from Raj Bhavanon 4-1-1988. it was stated that in regard to statementswhich have appeared in the press concerning thequestion of proving the majority on the. floor ofthe House, the position was being Constitutionallyand legafly examined m consultation with the expertsand a decision wouid be taken strictly in accordancewith Constitutional provisions and established con-ventions Reference was made m the press commu-nique that in the letter dated 3-1-1988, Mrs. JanakiRamachandran wrote to the Governor that she shouldbe called at the earliest to form the ministry as
• she enjoyed the wholehearted support of 97 MLAsbelonging to her party and that she could definitelyprove the majority on the f'ocr of the Assemblyas eariy as possible but not later than three weeksfrom the date of. her assuming office of the ChiefMinister. Reference was also made therem that tnhis rep'y of the same date, the Governor mentionedthat "he had taken note of the fact that she wtllprove the majority on the floor of the,Assemblyas early as possible but not later than three weeksfrom the date of assuming office as Chief Minister"
2 The experts on Constitutional law. both withtnand outside the State of Tamil Nadu have beenconsulted. These include the Const:tut,1 ona! exoertand jur.st Thiru H M Seervai, Bombay and seniorAdvocates in Delhi Messrs Asnok Sen, Soli Sorabjee.Shantt Bhushan and Knshnamoorthy Iyer and alsothe Advocate-General of the-State of Tamil NaduThe views of these experts on this question areas follows.
Thiru H M. Seervai, in his opinion, has statedas follows-
... However, in view of the division tn theAIADMK it was necessary for Mrs Janaki to showthat she commanded tho support of a majority inthe Assembly by moving a Resolution of confidencein her capacity as Chief Minister .. Article 164(2)of our Constitution provides tnat the Council of Minis-ters shall be collectively responsible to the Legislative
Assembly of tne State This Article does not expressly &state that rvs Council of Ministers must have the ^.support of r-e majority of the members of the House.But "shall be respons o!e to the Legislative Assembly" •)(•means that ir.e Legislative Assembly can by a major- ^ity express :s lack c-( confidence in the Governmenteither forcing it to resign, or to seek a dissolut ion^of the Assembly A vote of no confidence can bepassed by 3 s mp!e majority Similarly, where Govern- "***ment makes the vote on any subject a matter of #confidence, sjch a vote is passed by a s^mple major-ity of those present and voting. It is because of "this that Mrs Jsnam undertook to show that she . j ^commended a majonty of the House to remain asChief Minister and hesd of the Council of Ministers. 3r
What has been sad above shows, in my opinion. ^that a Resc _fon proposing confidence <n the Govern-ment of M"5 Jana*> requires to be passed by a )frsimple majc-ty Article 189 provides for voting in ^the House 506 the power of the House to act notwith-standing vacancies, and sub-article (1) provides that >fc"Save as otherwise provided m this Constitution. .all questiors at any 5."ing of 3 House of the Legisla-ture of a State sha'l be determined by a majority £of votes o ; trie members present and voting otherthan the Soeaker or Chairman, or person acting *as such." £
Article 189 is a general article providing for deter- 'mining all ojesticns at any Sitting of the Legislature ^of a State —- the determination is to be "by a .^majority of r^e member present and voting " (emph^- ".sis supplied) Hovi'ever, Article 183 opens with the "frwords "Save as o the^se provided in ihis Constitj- 4tion" and it «s instructive to re;er to sn Artcie whichotherwise p-o^ides Artcle 169 provides for "Abo!- •£ition or 0r£-2".'0r\ of Legislative Counci m States." ^Such aboittror, or creator, requires that the Legislative *Assembly of- a St&te "passes a Resolution by a $majority of the total membership of the Assembly •ana by a r^o ' i ry of net less tnan two-thirds of *the membe's present and voting" (emc>h3Q;s suppl- ±jed) Tho alcove articie is instructive It shows thatwhen a map'.ty of tr,e total mem&ership of a Legisia- >ture (the Assembly) is requirec, the Constitution says ^so Further. -t a larger majority is des'.-ed among \those presfe-'t and voting, as fo r example, a two-thirds -$?*majority, the Constituton says so." <
"There ?s enothe- provision of the Constitution *which app:-es to Pa-iament, viz., Artic'e 368 where ^sub-article C2) requ 'es that the B:!l prooosing ansmendment of the Constitution m jst be'passed in *
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' of that House It is clear therefore that where theConstitution intends that a majority of the total mem-bership of the House is required, an express provisionis made to that effect."
No alternative: "There is no article in our Constitu-tion which requires a different form of voting fora no confidence motion or a motion of confidencethan that presc-ibed by Article 1S9 Therefore, MrsJanaki is required by Article 189 to obtain a voteof confidence by a simple majority of those present
. and voting Once a question to be determined clearlyfalls under Article 189, and no Article can be pointedout in our Constitution which requires a differentform of voting, eg by a simple majority of thetotal membership of the Assembly, there can beno doubt that the Governor who swears to "preserve,protect and defend the Constitution (Article 159)would hold that Mrs Janaki has made good herclaim that she has a support of- the majority, if avote of confidence is passed by a majority of thosepresent and voting (Article 189)
In determining the majority of the votes of those"present and voting, those who abstain from votingcannot be taken into account, because they are pres-ent but not voting and are outside Article 189".
"In the resuit. the Governor acted according towell settled principles and conventions in invitingMrs Janaki to form a Government, and Mrs Janakiwill have established that she has the support ofthe Assembly if she obtains a vote of confidenceby a majority of the members of the Assembly pres-ent and voting."
Thiru Ashok Sen has opined as follows."The Motion of No-Confidence or votes as the
case may be has to be decided by a majority ofvotes as provided by Article 189(1) of the Constitu-tion. The majority decision will have to be determinedby the Speaker in accordance with the Rules ofProcedure concerning voting on no-confidencemotions-Votes in favour i.e.*Yes and votes againsti.e No, have to be recorded. If the Yes are morethan No votes the motion of confidence or no-confi-dence would be carried This is the only way bywhich the decision of the Assembly has to be deter-mined under the Ruleis of Procedure framed underthe Constitution
Absention does not matter Absention is not voting.The Rules of Procedure only recognises voting ofYes or No Therefore it does not matter whetherthere is any absention or not. If the Yes votes are
more, then the motion will be treated as carriedwhereas if the No votes are more, then the motionwill be treated as rejected. This is what the Rulesof Procedure prescribe. About the question as towhether any seat of the legislature, being vacant,can affect the power of the legislature to expressits confidence or lack of confidence in .the Councilof'Ministers, the law appears to be clear Article189(2) provides clearly that the legislature of a Stateshall have power to act notwithstanding any vacancyin the membership thereof and the proceedings ofthe State Legislature-shall be valid notwithstandingthe fact that it may be discovered later that somepersons, who are not entitled to vote, have voted."
Thiru Sdi Sorabjee has expressed the followingview
"The Constitution, does not make a different provi-sion in respect of a motion of confidence as itdoes in the case of abolition or creation of theLegislative Council of a State in which'event Article1.69 specifically provides for the passing of a resol-ution by a majority of the total membership of the
-Assembly and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the members of the Assembly present andvoting Again in the case of the removal of a Speakeror a Deputy Speaker from his office. Article 179requires that a resolution to that effect should bepassed by a majority of all the then members ofthe Assembly. Since the mode of voting in the caseof a motion of confidence is not "otherwise providedin the Constitution", its fate • must be determinedaccording to the plain terms of Article 189(1). namely.a majority of votes of the merrbers present andvoting and not by the majority of the total member-ship of the House."
"In my opinion,-a member who is physically presentbut abstains from voting, that is. does not expresshis opinion- on the motion of confidence by eitheraye' or noe' cannot be said to be a member presentand voting... Consequently passage of a motion ofconfidence will have to be determined by a majorityof votes of the members who are present and whoactually vote one way or the other." ' .
Thiru Shanti Bhushan has expressed the followingview:
Clear answer: "The next question that arises iswhether when a motion of confidence is broughton the floor of the Legislative Assembly in pursuanceof the directive of the Governor, whether such motionwould have to be adopted by the majority of themembers present and voting or by an absolute major-ity of the members of the Legislative Assembly —whether present or not. The relevant provision ofthe Constitution, namely, Article 189(1) gives a clearanswer to this question. It is clearly provided thatexcept in respect of matters for which other provi-sions might be made in the Constitution, any ques-tions at any sitting of the House have to be determin-ed by a majority of votes of the members presentand voting other than the Speaker or person actingas such. So far as confidence motion or no confi-dence motion is concerned, no other alternative provi-sion has been made in the Constitution with theresult that such motion would be clearly governedby Article 189(1) Thus if the confidence motion issupported by a majority of the members presentand voting, the confidence motion would be deemed
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to have been adopted by the Legislative Assembly.If any members of the Legislative Assembly either
absent themselves from the sitting in which suchmotion of confidence or no confidence motion isconsidered or after being present abstain from voting,these members shall not be taken into considerationin determining the fate of the motion irrespectiveof what might be said by them or on their behalfinside or outside the Assembly. It, therefore, followsthat such abstention in the meeting cannot in anymanner be treated or considered as a negative voteon the motion of confidence.
It is axiomatic that when any matter is governedby a specific provision of the Constitution, it canonly be determined m accordance with those provi-sions and not on any other considerations at all
In view of what has been said above, my opinionon the questions formulated is as set out aboveand I would like to add that answers are so obviousthat they admit of no genuine debate on those ques-tions"
Thiru Krishnamoorthy Iyer has expressed the fol-lowing views* "Applying the above principle, it isclear that the Governor of Tamil Nadu, who hadmade an assessment of the respective claims ofthe Members of the majority Darty in the State Assem-bly, namely A'ADMK was satisfied that Mrs JanakiRamachandran had the support of the majority inthe AIADMK party in the Legislature, and took noteof the fact that "she could prove her majority onthe floor of the House as early as possible butnot later than three weeks"
"The motion of confidence to be moved in theHouse is a, question to be discussed at the sittingof the House of the Legislature of a State withinthe meaning of Art/ 189(1) of the Constitution andit has therefore to be determined by a majority ofvotes of the Members present and voting other thanthe Speaker or Chairman, or person acting as such,as stated in the latter part of Article 189(1) of theConstitution. This in my view admits of no doubt
(11) In this connection, it is worthwhile to takenote of Articles 169(1), 179Cc), 124(4) and 217C1XWof the Constitution which specifically prescribed for-a majority of the total membership of the Assemblyin respect of matters specifically dealt with therein.The wordings "save as otherwise provided in thisConstitution" in Article 189(1) of.the Constitutionobviously has reference to thsse provisions and othersimilar provisions, if any. in the Constitution.
(12) Thus, it will be seen that in respect of resol-utions which require-the support of a majority ofthe total membership of the Assemiy, there are ex-press previsions in the Constitution In the absenceof such express provisions, all matters to be decidedby the Assembly by a majority vote has to be decidedon!y in accordance with the provisions of Art'cie189(1) of the Constitution. This is specifically sobecause of the opening words "Save as otherwiseprovided in this Constitution" in Article 189(1). Inview of this, I am of the opinion that a confidencemotion when moved in the Tamil Nadu Assemblyhas only to satisfy the requirements of Art. 189C1)of the Constitution.
(13). In this connection, probably a question mayarise whether Members of the Assembly presentbut who abstain from voting have to be taken into
account in the matter of courftrsg cf votes. Thisis a!so answered by Art-cie 189(15 or j+-e Constitutionwhich specifically uses the words Tufayarity of votesof the members present and vo&ng' in view olthese specific words occurring in. the Article, themembers who are present and wsio -co ro t voteare not entitled to be taken into account in thematter of finding out the majorrty $& ?he purposeof Article 189(1) of the Ccnstitut>on."~
3 The Advocate-General has expressed tws opinionin the following terms:
"it would tnerefore se dear that a question relatingto the vote of confidence m the Government is amatter which would be governed try £*n. 189(1) ofthe Constitution and ne-ice would- •rsave-tD be deter-mined by a majority of votes of the znenmers presentand voting.
No specific provision: 4. As referred to already,so far as the question relating to tr<& meson seekinga vote of confidence :n tne Governrroent ess. concerned,there is no specific provision m the Constitutionproviding for the manner in which the satd motionis to be determined in the Legislative Assembly.In the circumstances, in terms of Art. ?v£9(1) of theConstitution, the aforesesi question relating to a mo-tion seeking a vote cf confidence in the Governmentwould have to be determined by a nngforsty of thevotes of the members present and vofcrKj. It wouldbe pertinent to pom: c-jt that the aforssaid Articlenamely Art 189(1) specifically refers to -he majorityof votes of the meTihe"S present and acting whichwould make it,clear z~3t the sa^S Article requiresall questions to be cete- mined cy a simple majorityof the votes of the members pceser-z and voting.It is sigmf.cant to no:s that the -nxrS "majority"qualifies the "votes of the nOT.£jers present andvoting" which wou;d r-ake it ve-y cfear that thesaid Article has nothing to do with Sne texal member-ship of the Assembly. •
5. Ail these experts a^e thus uniformrv of the opin-ion that Tmt Jar.aki Po "lachandran-»*Gi>jid have prov-ed her majority in tr.e Asserr-b.^ .f a 'Resolutionseeking a vote of confidence *n tne Mtr.-stry headedby her is passed by a majority of /r>erroers presentand voting with reference to Article ~-83(1) of theConstitution.
6 I have also had the occasion of glancing throughthe "learned' opinion of a high f i ynq celebrity whorevels in jiterary narcissism and crsGases to buildup his case on the oas-s cf mearoer .rr; and tangled
"constructions, dicact.c ho~ir .es a-">d abstractgeneralisations. Whi.e he advocates t^a-.-ise of politi-cal sence 'and inte'^c^nce sc rees he would likeyou to shut your eyes to the reaves c f t*>e situation.He sees no mem ,r, t^e we: -recocr^sed methodsof identification arxi ver % cation <n tne fgce cf conflict-ing claims of nvat C'Ovps ana has- mass no seriousat:err.pt to examine tne issues in t r e hgrt of specificConstitutional provisoes. His op nron ;-s thus far lessconvincing than the views expressed by' eminentConstitutional experts who have cieiveo deep intothe matter.
7 After careful cci^deration cf a3 these opinions.I hoid the view that Tmt Janaki Rarnacr«ndran wouldhave' prov&d her msjcniy in t>e Assenoly if a voteof confidence in the Govern-rient ss isassed by • a
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Voters, candidates come face-to-fcBy HKMENDRA NARAYAN
Express News Service
SHILLONG, Jan 26It could be possible only in the
hills. For elsewhere truckloads ofpolicemen would be needed if threecandidates of rival parties with theirsupporters converged in an openspace.
There was no evidence of the forcewhen the three candidates of theMawprem constituency turned up atthe kilbong round to put forwardtheir points of view to the voters. All,of course, said they would be work-,ing lor the benefit of the voters onceelected.
The small.meeting was organisedby local residents who hadapproached the candidates to be pre-sent on one platform and presenttheip points of view. Before the meet-ing started, one of the organisersintroduced the candidates to the au-dience with their brief bio-data. The
. order of candidates was in
alphabetical order.When the candidates made their
speeches, the audience did not discri-minate their feelings and all of themclapped their hands when they cameup with good points. The question-answer session was dropped becauseof lack of time and there was onlyone complaint. The Congress (I)candidate, who was the secondspeaker, said that he wished he hadspoken last. The last speaker, anindependent .candidate, was able toargue his points in a better way.
The first speaker was Mr AiborSingh Nongkynrih of the Hill People
• Union (HPU), who is fighting elec-tions first time. The experience ofbeing in the same, platform with othercandidates made him a bit uneasybecause the constituency had a mixedpopulation. The speeches were inEnglish and this turned out to be ahandicap for Mr Nongkynrih.
The crowd response was also goodwith all the people who had gatheredat the ground remained till the wholefunction ended. Unlike - in other
places where the crowd would preferto stand and listen to the politicians,here benches were provided by theorganisers. One of the speakers saidif more such meetings were held thenit would have been cheaper for thecandidates to reach the voters. At themeeting, the public address systemwas also provided l"; the organisers.
The HPU candidate said that if he-was elected, a committee would beformed to look into the problems ofthe local people and "with yourco-operation nothing is impossible".He said that his party was the onlyalternative to the Congress (Ij andthe time was ripe for a change.
The next speaker was the moreexperienced—Mr Dhruba Nath Joshi
•of the Congress (I), who had beenrepresenting the constituency for thelast three terms, lie described orga-nising of such meetings us a "nobleidea". Though he was bold enough totalk of the ticklish issue of reserva-tion of seats for the tribals' in theState, Mr Joshi became apologeticfor some of the mistakes he might
have made during his tenure.Mr Joshi talked more in terms of
national development and nationalinterests. He made it clear if theparty in power at the Centre wasreturned in the State then it wiii have"soft corner" lor the iiill State also.
Mr Ikret'ord Sandcrsun Sawian',an independent, was rather loud anddirectly attacked Mr Joshi for notdoing anything. "There was a periodof 15 years of non-perlormancc", MrSawian charged. He aKo charged thatthe Congress (1) was ioljowing thepolitics of "remote control" and itmust now end. i
He said that being an independentcandidate he was able to feel thepinch of not having sufficient moneyto light the elections. "I'do not getfree flags, banners and posters fromDelhi", he told the audience,obviously hiving a dig at the Con-gress (1) candidate. • .
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RcDELITIITATION OF COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIESIN THE S TATE 0 F K ARN ATAK A
The • L e g i s l a t i v e Assembly of the 5 ta te o f Karnataka
unanimously passed a r 3 3 o l u t i o n recommending to the Government
o f I nd ia tha t the t o t a l numbsr of seats of th-e Karn&taka
L e g i s l a t i v e Counci l bs increased to 75 from the e x i s t i n g 63.
I n accept ing the recommendation of the State- Government o f
Karnataka," the Parl iament passed the Representat ion o f the
People (Amendment) Act, ' 1987 (31 of 1987) increas ing the t o t a l
number of seats o f Karnataka L e g i s l a t i v e Counci l from 63 to
75 . The number of seats a l l oca ted to Graduates and Teachers
ware increased to 7 from 6 and t h a t o f Local A u t h o r i t i e s
to 25 from the e x i s t i n g 2 1 .
Under the p rov i s ions o f sec t ion 12 of the Representat ion
o f the People Act , 1950, the President may, f rom. t ime to t ime ,
a f t e r consu l t i ng the E lec t i on Commission, by o rder , a l t a r of .
amend any order made by h im. As in the pas t , to implement
ths p r o v i s i o n s o f the Representat ion of the People (Amendment}
Ac t , 1987, the E lec t i on Commission uas requ i red to recommend to
the President the division of the State into Council
Constitusncies and allocation-of seats to each constituency.
The Commission formulated i t s proposals dividing the State of
Karnataka into 7 Graduates, 7 Teachers end 25 Local
Authorities constituencies and circulated the proposals to
al l s i t t ing HPo, PlLAs, MLCs and pol i t ical parties in the
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State of Karnataka on the 7th October, 1987. The general
public was also informed of the proposals by giving uida -
publicity through mass media. The suggestions or objections,,
if any, to the draft proposals uere invited from the public.
Tor delimiting the constituencies, Commission has adopted
district as the lowest unit. The 21 distr icts uere grouped into
7 constituencies for Graduates, and Teachers. So far as'Local
Authorities Constituencies uere concerned, each of the
20 districts (except Bangalore rural, which was separated from
the composite Bangalore dis t r ic t ) are allocated one seat'each,
The remaining 5 local authorities seats were givan to the
districts having the largest number of local authority electors.
5 districts have been identified as Ooubls-matnber constituencies.)
Tha Commission hald a public sitting at Banga?_ore on
24th November, 1987 to give further opportunity us thosa who
desired to be heard and made representation in regard to the
proposals. The representations made at the said hearing -
both oral and in writing - were further considered. Tha
suggestions for changes made on grounds of public demand,
social and cultural affinity, administrative convenience,
size of population, electorate, public convenience, e tc . ,
uere carefully considered by the Commission.
According to the Commission's recommendations, there
will be - seven single-member Graduates and Teachers consti-
tuencies as against the existing 6 single-member constituencies;
and 15 single-member and 5 double-member Local Authorities
Constitusncies as against existing -17 single-member and
2 doubl'3-msmber constituencies.
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Consequent to the changes propossd in the extent of
existing constituencies, tha Commission considered the allocation
of existing members of the Legislative Council of Karnataka
elected from various Graduates and Teachers constituencias
in relation to the proposed constituencies. In allotting
the sitting members to the Graduates -".id Teachers consti-
tuencias, the factors like (a) permanent address of the
members; (b ) .area of political ' and social activities of
the sitting members; and (c) the number/of electors by uhom
he uas earliar elected that will form the neuly elected
constituency etc. were kept in yieu. Since- all the existing ,
21 seats allocated to the Local Authorities' constituencies
of Karnataka Legislative Council are lying vacant, tha
allocation of members is not required to be done in respect
of those constituencies.. .•
The Commission sent i t s recommendations to the President
on 31st'December, 1987. The Government of India has yet to
issue the Order of-the President under section 12" of'tha
Representation of the People Act, 1950. , .,
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VISIT OF ro^EISN DIGNITARIES.
fir. Soorujundun noosun, Electoral Commissioner of
Mauritius, called on the Chief Election Commissioner on
11th December, 1987. He had ,discussion on the elect ion laws
and procedure in India . He had ' specif ical ly come to India
to acquaint himself with the local bodies e lec t ions as such
elec t ions are due in Mauritius in,0ctober., 1989. As the
conduct of e lec t ions to local bodies i s not vested with the
Commission and i t i s within" the purview of State Government,
he was advised to v i s i t a few States in India . Accordingly,
he. v is i ted Bombay, Go a, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu
before returning to Mauritius in Danuary, 1988i In the
S ta t e s , he had discussions with the ..Director s of Elections
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Regis trstion of ''Bhartiya RepublicanPaksh" S3 an unrecognised politicalparty in .the State of Maharashtra.-.,,.•:-'• ?0> 72
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articles on current pol i t ical issues published in
periodica is/neuspapBrs s receiv/ad in the Commission's
Libraxyj development in the f ie ld of electoral lau
and procedure, progress in the disposal of election
petitions and judicial decisions thereon, Commission's
decisions on quastiops as to disqualification of
ne faers to either House of Parliament or of the
State Legislatures and bye-elections to both the
Houses of Parliament and Stats Legislatures.
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( i ) registration of• "Bhartiya RepublicanPaksh" as an un-rscognised pol i t icalparty in ihe Stats "of " nsnareshtra* • • .-_..
( i i ) General Elections to tha Regha laya andTripura Lagislstive Assanbli.es.
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CHAPTER-I
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
A number of a r t i c l e s on current p o l i t i c a l issues
and ether matters of i n te res t appeared i n various
periodicals/neuapapers uhich were received i n the
Commission's Library during ths month of February,1988»
A l i s t of such a r t i c l es as are considered to be of
spec ia l i n te res t is given i n the fo l lowing pages.
Tuo move books have been added to the Library of
the Comnission. These are as fo l lows:
AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER
Basu,D.D. Commentary on the Ca l cu t t a : S . C. SarkarConstitution of 1988.India.Vol.Fl.
Rao,V.Bhaskara General Electio-ns Neu Delhi:in India. Uppalf1987.
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LIST CF ARTICLES FOR FEBRUARY 19G8
AUTHOR TITLE
(A) FOREIGN ELECTIONS AND POLITICS
NEWSPAPERS
Daruuala,Naja Sri Lanka:naed forelections.
REFERENCE
Indian Express;Neu Dalhi,February 11,19€8,p.8
Editorial Bangla poll portents. Patriot:Nou Delhi,February I2,1988,p.4
Editorial Bangladesh scenario. National HeraldsNeu Delhi,February 12,19£8,p.6
Editorial Signals to Irshad. The Hindustan Tises,Neu Delhi,February 12,1988,p.11
Editorial Cyprus elections.
On the recantprssidential electionin Cyprus,
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 26,1988,p f11
Datta-Ray.Sunanda K.
Dilemma inDhaka;
Futile Elactionson Martial Lau?
The Sunday Statesman,Delhi,February 2 8 , 1 9 8 8 t p . 6
(B) INDIAN ELECTIONS AND POLITICS.
(a) Piacazines.
Abdi,S.N.rn. Coming homa. IUI:February7~13t1988On Pranab Rukherjee'3 p.56
return to thaCongress fold.
Akbar,Fl.3. Tha return of PranabHukherjea.
Sunday:February 21.27,1988pp.8-9.
and Cnaula Prabu
.rh='-'la Prabu andRnmed Farzand
The changing face ofRajiv Gandhi.
More than threeyears after becomingprime minister
"Jh.Rajiv Gandhi haschanged physicallypo l i t ica l ly andatt i tudinal lyThe authors take detailedlook at the ev.oluticnDf the youngPrims, Minister.
REFERENCE
I n d i a Today:February 16-29,1988pp.22-28
Concress( l ) ChiefM in is te rs -Puppe tson a s t r ing .
India Today,Februaryl6-29,1988pp.42-44 •
Chaula Prabhu andVenkatramani,5,H.
Tamil Nadu:Succession struggle.
India Today:February 1-15,1988pp.84-86
Kenan Andhra Pradesh;Treading places.
Reg.the outcomeof the recantassembly by electionsin Andhra Pradesh.
India Today:Februaryi-15,1988p.69
Menon Ramesh Tripura:Drama t i cturn about
On the outcomeof Tripura assemblyelections uhereterrorist ki l l ingssuung the voter'smood that su8pt theMarxists out of pouer.
India - Today:February 16-29,1988pp.35-38
Menon Ramssh andRattan,Kamaljaet
Meghalaya'A f ragi lecommand.This is an analysis
of ths outcome of therecent assemblyelections inMeghalaya uhore aminority Congrsss(l)Ministry uas suorn i n .
India Today:February 16-29,1908pp.39-40
AUTHOR
Mustafa ,Seema
Pachauri,Panka j
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TITLE
Captain Rajiv clears thedeck.
Th9 author says thatthe recent cabinstreshuffle has onlyconfirmed uhat manyhad suspected:thatthe Hindi heartlandgas suinqing auayfrom the Congress(l)
Rajasthan:Anignominious ouster
This is a report
REFERENCE
Sunday:February28-March(5,1988,pp.1O.
I n d i a Today;Februaryi-15,1988,pp.24-27
«by the author on thsouster of 5h.Harid803oshi, Chief Ministerof Rajasthan andinduction of Sh.S.C,Plathur in his place.
Sinha,Rakesh The mess in the _•opposition
On the futureprospects of Congress(i)u i th the curruptioncharges againstSh. Rajiv Gandhiunproved and victoriasin Nagaiand,Tripuraand Meghalaya to hi3credi t . The oppositionon the othsr hand,remains as1 ' "fragmented as over,and the divisionseems to have evendeepened.
.Onlooker:February 16-29,1988pp.42-43
Srivastava,Sanjsev
Daposed.The ur i ter reports on
tha abrupt exit ofRajssthan ChiefHinistor Sh.HaridsoDos h i .
IUI:February7-12,1988pp.26-29
AUTHOR
Tr ivedi ,Suamiand Ahmed,Faizan
Chief M in is te rs ascorporate execut ives
This i s a repor t onuhy Sh.Raj iv Gandhichanged the ChiefMin is te rs of FiadhyaPradesh and Bihar .
REFERENCE
Sunday:February 28-Plarch 6,1988,pp.13-15
(b)Neuspapers
Khare,Ha r i sh Bid to c o n t r o ldissidance:Behind theDoahi a f fa i r .
Reg.the abruptreplacement of theRajasthan Chief MinisterShri Harideo 3oshi.
The Times of India!Neu Delhi,February1,1988,p.6
Editorial No other uay.On the imposition of
President's rule inTamil Nadu.
Indian Express,Neu Delhi,February1,1988,p.6
Edi tor ia l
Editorial
Editor ia l
*A sorely-needed step
•Disturbed Tripura
*Calumny in Tripura*Reg.the declarationof the entire Tripuraas'disturbed area1 bytha centre.
National Herald:Neu DelhijFebruary1,1988,p.6
The Hindustan Tiroes,Neu Delhi,February1,1988,p.11
Patriot:Nou DelhiFebruary1,1988,p.4
Das Gupta, What's urong ui th him.Amalendu Feu disagree on
Fir.Gandhi's fa i l ings.
The StatesmanrDalhi,February2,1988,p,6
AUTHOR
Editorial
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TITLE
Rescuing Tamil NaduRag.tha imposition
of President's rule inTamil Nadu after theincidents occurredduring tha vote ofconfidence.
REFERENCE
Tha Hindustan Tima3,Neu Delhi,February 2,1988,p.11
Tharyan,P Tamil Nadu:New turn inpol i t ics .
Tha Hindustan TimasrNau Dalhi,February 3,1988,p.11
Saraf , PushP Rajasthan Newsletter;"The humiliation ofHaridso Doshi.
Reg.the dismissalof Sh. Haridso 3oshias ths Chief Ministerof Rajasthan byPrime Minister,Sh.RajivGandhi.
Indian Expre33:Neu Oslhi:February 3,1988,p.6
Malhotra,Inder Pol i t ica l commentary.Descending to lowestdepths.
On ths po l i t i ca lsi tuation of Tamil Naduaftsr tha death ofSh.FI.G.Ramachandraru
The Times of India,Neu Dalhi,February 4,1988,p.6
Abraham, ft. S, Sarkaria Panelproposals - Limit3 ofstructural reform.
The Times of India,Neu Delhi,February 5,1988,p.6
AUTHOR
Editorial *Vote for chanoB
REFERENCE
The Times of India,Neu Dslhi,February 5,1988,p.6
Editorial *Blou to Marxists.. The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 5,1988,p.11
Editorial *Verdict in North-East
Editorial *Snub for ruling parties.
Editorial *Tripura end tfeghala'ya
* Reg.outcome of therecent assembly elocticnsin Tripura and Meghalaya,
San Gupta, Reqicnal perspectiveBhabani Fall out of Lenka accord.
Editorial Different verdictsOn the outcome of tha
recent assembly electionsin Tripura and Neohalaya.
Editorial Take i t gracefullyReg. same as above.
National Herald, "Neu Delhi, -February 5,19S8,o.6
Tha Statesman,DelhiFebruary 5,1988,p.6
Patriot:Neu Delhi,February 5,1988,p.4
The Hindustan Times:Neu Delhi,February 5,1988,p.11
Indian Express:Neu Delhi,February 6,1908,p.8
National Herald,Neu Delhi,February 6,1988,p.6
Dar,A.N.
B°di,DoginderSingh
Heode,Ramakrishna
The danger in TamilNadu
On tho pol i t ica lsituation in Tamil Naduafter the dsath ofSh.K. G. Ramachandran.
Uhare does Akalipolity GTT t
Need for a nationalalternative
National HeraldNeu DelhiFebruary 6,19(:8p.6
National Herald,Neu Delhi,February 6,1988,p.6
The Hindustan Times(Magazine) Neu Delhi,February 7,1988,pp.142
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AUTHOR TITLE
Datta-Ray, Trioura's gift tc RajivSunanda,K. No card left for
opposition?On the victory of
Congress(I) in th&recant assemblyelections in Tripura.
The Sunday Statesman:Dglhi,February 7,1988,p.6
Pubby,Vipin Assam Newsletter:AGP centra gulfwidening
Indian Express,Neu Delhi,February 8,1988,p.8
Editorial Tripura portentsThis is a comment on
the outcome of therecent ass'arn lyelections in Tripura*
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,Februsry 9,1988,P.11
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial.
Editorial
Troubled Heg^alayaThis isacomment on
thB governor's role inFteghalaya, where i tis alleged that aminority government hasbeen installed by thegovsrnor Sh.BhishmaNarain Singh.
*Call the assembly.
Patrict:Neu Delhi,February 9,1988,p.4
Indian Express,Neu Delhi,February 9,1988,p.8
*Governcr in the clouds The ~j :fohrnaru
*neghalaya developments
^Scramble in Shilldno*C3n the pol i t ica l
si tuation in Plechalayaafter the formation ofCongress(I) govornmentheaded by Sh.P.A.Sangma.
National Herald,Neu" Delhi,February11,1988,p.6
The HindustanNeu DelhiFebruary 11 ,lyt;b»'«-•
Sa ha y, S
Raman, ?«Sri
Governor made a scapegoatThis is a comment on
the Tanil Nadu governor'srole in the recenthappenings in Tamil Nadu.
Uhere Congress attemptscomebacksReg.the Ccnoress attsmpt3for a come back in Siat-BS.where i t was not a ruling'party likeTamil Nadu-e to.
REFERENCE, '
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 12,19E8,p.11
Patriot:Neu Delhi,February 13,1968,p.4
Editorial *Changes for the better .
Editorial •fJith an eye on polls
Editorial *A reshuffle at last*Rsg.th9 -3c3nt
reshuffle of the UnionCabinet.
National Herald,Neu Delhi, . .February 15,1988,p.1
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 1 5,1988, p.,13
Patriot:N8u Delhi,February15,1988,p,4
GanculiAmulya
Marxists after TripuraRevealing CPl(fi)'sfeet ef clay.On the outcome of the
recent assemblyelections in Tripura,
The StatesmantDelhi,February 15,1986,p.4
Editorial Raj Bh^van tenants,
Reg.the appointmentof neu governor of Bihar,Kera la, Ka ma ta kaMaharashtra, Ra jacthanand Haryana,
Editorial *8ack to Bhopal
Editorial *Any different?* Rsg.Sh.ArjL-n Singh's
third term as ChiefMinis tnr of r.ac'hyaPradesh,
The Hindustan Times:
Nau Dslhi,February 16,1986,p.11
The Hindustan Times,Neu Dalhi,February17,198£,p.11
Indian Express,Nou Delhi,February17,19BB,p,8
AUTHOR
Sayeed,Flohd.
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D&K NewsletterrAlliapcsruns into rough uG£thar.
Reg.the functioningof the coalition govt.in 3&K.
Patriot,Neu Delhi,February 20,1988,P.4
Tharyan,P«A calcuiated exorcise.
The Hindustan Times,Nau Delhi ,February20,1988p.11
Subramanian,C Pro l i fe ra t ion of part ies. The Hindustan Times,KJU Delh i ,February 20,1988p.11
Thakur,Danardan
The a l l - too- f requentchanges.
The Hindustan Timas,(Magazine),Neu Delhi ,February 21,1988p.6
Chadha,Kumkum
The 'pack* of thirfcsan The Hindustan Times,(Clagazine) ,Neu'Delhi,February 21,1988p. 6-7
Raman, P« The o ld s t y lo again.On t h e . p o l i t i c a l scene
of the country.
Indian -Express,Nau D s l h i ,February 23,1988p.8
Bhat ia,R. L. Raj iv Gandhi at mid-termOn the performancs of
Sh.Gandhi as PrimeMinister of India,
The Hindustan Times,•Neu Oalhi,February 24,1988,p.11
Rangachari,K, Sarkaria report- U i l l Tha Statesman,Delhi,anyone pay any heed to i t ? February 26,1988,
p.6
Pieghalaya manoeuvres
REFERENCE
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 27,1988,'p.11
JSui^askar, Pu. in search of an
Hgg.tha persistentcall of the oppositionfor a mid-term generalelection. • • •
Indian Express,New Oalhi,February 27,1988,p.8
Bhandarfe.M.C, Rajya Sab ha e pi so da -violation of rules .This is a comnsnt on
the proceedings inRaiya Sabha on Fob,,23uhich led to a situationuhare Dr.Shankar DayalSharma offered to resignas the Chairman of theRa j ya Sa b ha.
The Hindustan Times,Neu Delhi,February 29,1988,p.11
Iyer,V.R.
Krishna
Krishna
Tha Indo-Sri Lanka accordAn appraisal'An instant butinfantile response ofhistory1.
Patriot,Neu Delhi,February 23,1988,p.4
The Injrfn-Sri Lanka accord: Patriot:Meu Delhi,An appraisal-II 'South February 24,1988Block's damp Squib DRD's p.4dgunle speak.
Iyer,V.R«Kri shna
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The Indo-Sri Lanka accord: PatriotzNeu Delhi,An appraisal-1II ' A February 25,1988,misjudgement, a mis- p.4adventure'
The Indo-Sri Lanka accord: Patriot:Neu Delhi,An appraisal-IV. February 26,1908,1Unimplemsnted under- p.4takings,constitutionalcards harping.
Tne I^Jc-Sri Lanka accord: Patriot:Neu Delhi,An apnraisal-U: A break February 27,1986,through or a break doun ? p.4
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Undar Section V 6 of the Representation of tha
People Act,1951., the High Courts aro required to send a
copy each of orders pa3sad Dy them in election petitions.'
Similarly undar section 116, the Supreme Court is required
to. sand a copy each of the orders Passed by it in election
appeals. Gists of the orders of raspectivs High Courts
and tha Supremo Court are published in this Chapter uith
a vieu to acquainting readers of tho salient point3 of thasa
ordarso This issue contains gists of ton judgmonts in
elsction petitions - scuan in raspect of Dam;nu and Kashmir
and one each from the states of Orissa,Rajasthan and
Uttar. Pradesh. All thssa petitions uero dismissed by
tha respactiua High Courts.
In addition, gist of an orddr of tha Supremg Court
in Civil appeal Nos .41-32-4133 (HUE) of 19BS against the
judgment of Rajasthan High Court(the appeal uas alloued
by tha Supreme Court) is also glygn in ths follouing
Pages.
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In .ft1"10. _ " H '"' r t of
1. nohd.Tshir Vs. P.L. Handoo (Election Petition No.1/83)
2, Mohd. Ramzan Kuchhai Us. Abdul Salam Deva (Election Petition
o. u.i-i, ut.ut.li u ~, riocul Samad Teli (Election Petition No,7/83
4. Ghulam Hohi-ud-Din Salathi Vs. Dr. rarooqh Abdullah (Election
Petition-No. 27/83) .
5. G.F,. Wi=>yar Vs. Mubarak Gul (Election Petition No. 28/83)
o. HDDui uayoom Vs. Abdul Rahim Rather (Election Petition No.53/83)
•/..• .Z'u. ttobi Nircha Vs. Hakim Habib Ullah & another (Election
. Petition No. 59/63)
The above mentioned seven election petitions
are taken jointly because allegations made in these
Petitions are more or less similar. All the petitioners.-had
called in question the election of the respective
. •iv* .: ,vr-.v. r-dRT't * to the - Dn-imu & Kashmir Legislative Assembly
from 37- Phalgam, 36- Homashalibugh, 22-Nagin, 15-Ganderba1.
20-Idgah, 27-CharPrisharif and 10- Sopore Assembly
Constituencies respectively in the General Election
held in Dune 1983. The main allegation uas that the
leaders of National Conference including Dr. Fsrooqh
Abdullah, Chief Minister and Bequm Akbar Dehsn uith the
help and support of respondents were guilty of corrupt
r.r&r.Li r.ns ua thin the meaning of Section 132(3) of the
Representation of People Act, 1951. Public Speeches
8t relicious plrc<?5 uero delivorod an Conritnunal basis
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by making religious appeals to the voters that I ._._. _
party uas a Hindu-Commune list p&.rty which uas responsibla
for mass killings af Huslims in Assam and other places.
It uas further alleged that the respondents croatod a
fasling of hatred among voters by saying th=. fc if Congress-* I
uas voted to pouer muslim majority of the State of Damiru
and Kashmir will be reduced to minority. It was also
propec2ted that the muslirm of the.Stats u=rn safe only if •
National Conference uas voted to pcuar.
In most of the election petitions, the petiticners
•jare- asked to produce witnesses and documentary evidence
in support of their allegations. Either the uitr""*3ss ue^«
not produced at all or uh^tever evidence and witnesses UBTB
produced, the High Court held them as in. sufficient
and irrslavant shewing no causa of action. Host of the
paragraphs of ths election petitions uere, therefore
struck off.
All the above mentioned election petitions uere
dismis-sed uith costs due to lack of proof and evidence, vide
High Court's orders dated 21.2.87, 10.4.87, 11.4.67 and
18.4.87 respectivsly. .
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IH THE HIGH COUfvT OF ORISSA, CUTTACK " v .
feLECTICN PETITION NO.1 OF 1985) ' ' '
. • • • •
Rab i Ray. . . . P o t i t i o n o r - •.. »
- . • . v s . • . / \
1. Lakshnan Mallick ' ,2. Yudhistira 0a3 and . ;.
3. Surendra Nath fiishra . . .Rospondants
This election patition uas f i led by Shri Rabi Ray,
a defeated candidate calling in question the election
of the 1st .respondent Shri Lakshman fial'lick to the Housa
of the Poople from 7-3agatsinghpur parliamantary consti-
tuency in the general election held in December, 1904.
He uon the election by a margin of 1087 votes.
The petitioner alleged commission of a number of
irregularit ies in the counting of votes including improper
acceptance and rejection of valid votes, incorrect and
deliberate accounting and totall ing of votes, undue
influence of government officers in favour of the 1st
respondent, polling of extra and spurious ballot, papers
by the respondents. DUB to those i r regular i t ies, ths
petitioner prayed for recount of a l l tho ballot papers.
Apart from that, a number of charges of corrupt
practices alleged to have been committed by the respondent
and his election agents uer§ also levelled by the petit ioner.
These charges included promotion of casteism and
communalism, bribery, threatening the voters to vote for
respondent No..1, spreading of terrorism by one Shri Qharmananda
Bohara and his gang for supporting tho 1st respondent,
organising 'Loan flelas1, i l legal inauguration of certain
welfare projects, etc. . .
• contd.•••
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The respondent filed a urittan statement denying
all tha allagationsand challonging maintainability of
the election petition- for non-compliance of sections SJf,
82, 83 and 117 of the Raprosantation of tha Paopla Act,
1951.
Tha High Court, however, did not accept tnosa pleadings
and proceeded further to decide about all tha issues.
As regards the alleged charges of corrupt practices* »_v
i t uas hgld that the allegationsof corrupt practicas ara
quasi criminal charges and tha proof that uould ba required
in support of such allegations uould ba as in criminal
charges. Tha petitioner failed to prove allegations levelled
by him by reliablg and sufficient evidence. Material facts
relating to placas, dates, times and names of persona uho
cbmnittad those corrupt practicas uero not mentioned in tha
election petition.
Oral evidence and documentary proof submitted in
support of the allegation of irregularities in tha counting
of votes proved that there uas gross irregularity in
counting of votes. Tho High Court held that errors .and
ommissions in counting of ballot papers are factors uhicft
materially affect tha result of ths election. Tha
Returning Officer himsalf uas convinced that had i t baan
pointed out to him that there uere mistakes in tha result
sheet, ha uould have >mada further enquiry and uould not
have declared the result. It also happened that even
after-the declaration of result, ho corrected the figures"
in tha result sheet, ubrarcby tho margin of difference of
contdo•»•
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votes between the petitioner and 1st respondent uas
reduced from 1087 to 958. Thus, the High Court uas
convinced that the petitioner uas able to make out a
prima-facie_case for recount of the ballot papers of the
said constituency. The High Court also observed that
"it is true that' secrecy of the ballot is important but
doing justice is undoubtedly more- important."
" Recount of the ballot papers uas ordered on 14.5.1987
to take place in the High Court premises*. After the recount,'
Registrar{Judicial) reported that the petitioner secured
2,60,813 votes and the Respondent No.1 secured 2,61,386 votes',
the difference being 573, He could not decide about 1500 ballot
papers and referred the same for Court's scrutiny. All those
ballot papers ware scrutinised in the Court. After scrutiny,
240 ballot papers uere counted in favour of respondent No.1
uho uas also entitled to the benefit of 59 postal ballots
to be counted in his favour. Thus,the petitioner finally
got 2,61,053 votes and respondent No.1 got 2,61,e54 plus 59 postal
ballots. The difference uas 860 votes. The respondent No.1
uas thus declared elected after the recount.
The Petitioner again filed a petition for amendment which
uas rejected by the Court. .
The High Court noted two significant factors uhich came
to light during recount of ballot papers:-
(i) A large number of voters do not knou hou to cast their
votes and put the seal marks at wrong places. As a result,
a large number of ballot papers are rejected. If tha
voters are atjle to cast their votes properly, in many
cases result of election would be different. Therefore
it is nocessnry to educate the illiterate voters both
in urban and rural areas.contd.•.•.
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(ii) Carelessness of the presiding and polling officars.
- In many cases it uas found that the rubber seal
uas missing. On the ballot paper, just a smudged
impression of ink appeared over the election syabol.
This uas dua to removal or loss of the rubber impression
of the seal containing the arrou mark. The officers—
in—charge of the polling stations did not notice
this aspect and even if they noticed this aspect,
they did not give any importance to it.
Th8 High. Court hoped and advised that the Election
Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officers of
various States uould take suitable remedial measures.
In view of. the above findings, the election petition
uas dismissed uith costs vide High Court's orders dated
18.11.1987. '
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II! THE HIGH.COURT OF 3UUILMTUK £". FDR Rn3rtiTI!MN
(ELECTION PETITIGii WO. 11 OF 1985)
Gopal Singh ».•.Petitioner
Us.
Fiahadeo Singh & othars .«..Respondents
This olection petition uas filed by Shri Gopal Singh,
a defeated candidate Calling.in question tho election of
the 1st respondent Shri fiahadeo Singh to the Rajasthan
Legislative Assembly,from 36-Khandala assembly constituency.
Ths 1st rospondant uas declarod alscted by a margin of
519 votes. . • -
The petition uas filed- on the ground of various
irregularities alleged to have been committed by tha
1st respondent and his counting agents. It uas alleged
that he raised an objection to that effect but the Roturning
Officer did not take any action. The petitioner prayad
for recount of all the ballot papers.
The 1st respondent submitted an application that the
petition uas liable to fea dismissed far non-compliance
of section 01(3) of the Representation of the People Act,
as the copy of ths petition served on him uas not a true
copy of the petition and that it was not duly attedted
and verified. The petitioner also did not file requisite
copies of the election petition.
During the course of arguments, however, the lot
respondent did not press these issues. Tha only issue
pressed uas that ths elsction petition did not contain
concise statement cf material facts and particulars. It
uas alleged by the potiticnor that the 1st respondent uas
contd,».
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favoured by th8 counting staff but he did not remsmbar
their names. There uas hououer no specific statement as
to in what manner ho uas favoured. In his cross-examination
he stated that hs had no personal knowledge about ths
irregulariti98 alleged to have been committed by tha
1st respondent and his election agent3. He also alleged
that there uas some mixing of the votes. About 3-4 votes
of the petitioner uere mixed uith the votes of the 1st
respondent Shri Flahadeo Singh. Ha added that uhon he
objected to that| the votes uere kapt in proper bundles.
The High Court observed that the petitioner only made a general
statement that many irregularities uere committed during ths
counting of votes. He did not make any specific allegations
against any of tha parsons. Ths petitioner, thus failed to
prove any of ths charges of irregularities alleged to
have been committed by the 1st respondent. Therefore, tha
High Court found no justification to order a recount.
The election petition uas thus dismissed uith costs vide
its orders dated 16.9.1987.
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IN THE HIGH CCURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
{ELECTION PETITION ND.12 OF 1^65)
O'm Prakash alias Or .Q.P.Usrm3 ... .Petitioner
V s . •
Santosh and others .»..Respondants
This election petition yas filed by Shri Om Prakash, a
defeated candidate calling in question the election "of the
1st respondent Shri Santosh to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative
Assembly from 310—Cnhibraman constituency in the general
election held in March, 1985.
The petition was filed on the sola ground that the
nomination papers of tha 1st respondent and the other 15
candidates usre improperly accepted by the Returning Officer.
All the respondents uere alleged to have taken oath before
filing their nomination papers which was against the provisions
of sections 30, ,32 and 36 of the Rsprassntation of the People
Act, 1951. .
The 1st respondent also filed a uritten statement in
uhich ha stated that the petitioner Shri Dm Prakash uas not
a candidate at all in the said election. Tha candidate who
contested the election uas Or.0.P.Varna. The Returning
'Officer uas examined in this connection* Ho stated that ha
received on application No.A-55 on 0.2,1985 from Shri 0m Prakash
for recording his name as Dr .O.P.l'er ma in the list of contesting
candidates bacauso hs was more popular and known as Dr.O.P.l/arma
in his constituency. His application uas accepted and his
name uas .changed from 3hri 0m Prakash to Dc.O.P.Uerma in the
contd.....
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records. Tha High Court found this contention of ths
Returning Officer as trua and i t was proved that tha
petitioner uas the sams parson who contestad the elect ion.
As regards allegation of taking oath before f i l ing
nomination papers by the respondents, the Raturning Qfflcar
deposed as a witness and stated that the oath had been
subscribed in his presence and there uas no time lag bafcuaan
f i l ing of nomination papers and taking of oath uhich sl"*Quad
that taking of oath and f i l ing of the nomination papers uara
contemporaneous events. The petitioner did not claim that
he had any personal knowledge about the sequence of tha
8vants.
In view of the above findingsf the High Court held that
tha f i l ing of nomination preceded the taking of oath and
found no causa of action in the election petit ion and
dismissed i t uith costs vide i ts orders dated 25,11.1987 •
25
Shiu Charon Sinrh . Appellant
.Vs .
Chandra 9ten Singh Respon.dentsand others
These tuo appeals uere f i led under Section 116-A
of the R.P.Act, 1951 against the' judgment of Rajssthan
High Court dated 22.I'D-.1986 setting aside the. election of
the appellant Sh. Shiu Charan Singh to the Rajasthan
Legislative Assembly from 80- Karauli assembly constituency
in the cenarel election held in the year 1985.
The appellant and 10 other Candidates contested tha
election. The Returning Officer declared ths appellant
duly elected. Sh, Chandra Bhan Singh, 1st respondent f i led
Election Petition No. 1 of 1985 end anothc- Election
Petition No. 9 of 1985 uas f i led by Sh. flukanri Ram,
Respondent No. 2, cal3ing in question the election of the
appellant on the ground that Sh. Kanhsiya Lai, a contesting
Candidate Lias not qualified to contest the election Under
Article I73(b) of the constitution as he uas belou 25
Years of age on the date of scrutiny of nomination papers.
Both the Election Petitions uaro tr ied jo int ly by tho
Rajasthan High Court. By i ts order dated 22,10.60, the
High Court held that since Sh, Kanteiya Lai uas not qualif iedas he had not completed
to be a csndidate^25 years of age,his nomination paper uas
improperly accepted by ths Eeturning Officer.
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The High Court also held that since diffaranca of votes
batueen the votes polled by the appellant and ons 5h»
Roshan Lai uho had obtained the next highest votes uas
only 4497 votes, the result of the election uas materially
affected. On these findings, the High Court declared
the appellant's election void*
In the present "electicn appeal, the appellant raissd
only one submission that the finding reccrdad by the High
Court that the improper acceptance of Sh. Kanhaiya Lai's
nomination papers had materially affected the result of
appellant's electicn uas besed on conjectures. Ther8 uas
no legal evidence to prove that tha electicn uas materially
affected.
The Supreme Court held that improper acceptance of
nomination paper of any Contesting Candidate does not
ipso facto render ths electicn of the returned Candidate
void. I t can be declared void only i f i t is found that
the result uas materially affected. I t is impossible ta
for8 sea what the result mould have been i f the improperly
nominated candidate had not been in the f ie ld . The burden
lies on the petitioner to prove and establish by p ositiva
and reliable evidence that the electicn result uas nater ial ly
affected. In the instant C333, i t uas not proved that ir»
the absence of Sh. ttanhaiya Lai, Uhose nomination papers
alleged to have been improperly accepted any other
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Candidate (other than the returned' c^n^ itia te) Uould have
polled majority of valid votes. I t uas not permissible
in lau tc avoid the election of the returned candidate
only on speculations relating-to the manner in uhich the
uasted votes uould have be'en distributed amongst the
remaining val idly nominated candidates,, The Supreme Court
referred to i t s earlier ruling in Vashisht Narain Sharma
Us. Dev Chander and others (2) 1955 SCR 508 in uhich i t
uas held that the burden of proving that the result of- the
election uas materially affoetid riue to improper acceptance
of nomination papers lay on the petit ioner.
In the present case, Sh. Shiv Charan Singh, the appellant
had polled 21443 votes and one Sh. Roshsn Lsl polled the
next highest no* of votes being 16496. Thus there uas a
differoncs of 4497 votes.Sh. Kanhaiya Lai polled 17841
votes uhich uere uasted. I t is d i f f icu l t to assuma in
uhat proportion the voters uho voted for Sh. Kanhaiya
Lai, uculd have= voted for the remaining c-ndide<tes.
Sines there -jas no legal evidence produced by
the respondent No. 1, the Supreme Court held that, i t
uas not possible to fore-cast the result cf the a lect ion.
Thus, the election of the returned candidate cou].6 not
be declared void on the basis of only assumptions. and tf
speculations.
The Supreme Court alJoued the appeals, Set a side
the judgment of Rajasthan High Court and dismiss ed
the election pstitions ui th costs vide i ts orders dated
19.1.19BE.
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Tha Commission received a reference from the Prssidant
of India undor ssction 8A(3) of tha Representation of tha
Peopla Act, 1951 regarding the disqualif ication, of Shri 3.
Uankatasuara Rao uho uas alected to tha Andhra Pradash
Legislative Assembly from 277-Safchup3ili assamb-ly constituency
in the bya-alaction hold in Danuary, 1979 and uhoss election
uas declared void by ths Andhra Pradash High Court vida ii;s,
order dated 23.4.1960. Shri Rao f i led an appeal before tha
Suprama Court uhich uas dismissed by the Suprgma Court
vide i t s orders dated 15.9.1983. The President sought tha
opinion of the Eloction Commission in pursuance of sub-section (3)
of Section 8A of the said Act on the question whether tha
returned candidate should ba disqualified undar section 8fl(i)
of the said Act, and i f so, for hou much period.
Tha- Election Commission gavs i t s opinion that the raturnad
candidato should ba disqualified for a period of six years
under section 8A(1) of the. Representation of tho People Act,
T951 to ba reckoned from tha 15th September, 1983 (date of
judgment of the Supreme Court). A copy of the opinion is
reproduced in the following paces as Annaxure-I.
During tho month of February, 1988, 98 persons UOTQ
disqualified under section 10A of the Repressntation of the
People Act, 1351 for failure to lodge their accounts of
election axpensss at a l l or within the tins and/or in tha
manner required by lau. Out of 93 persons, 4 persons contsstsd
election to the House of the People and 94 to the Legislative
Assemblies of various States. Their namjs and addresses ara
given in the follouing pages as annoxurc-I I«
contdo o..
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Al l these persons uers disqualified vido Commission's
orders dated S.2.1988. Therefora, their disqualifications
w i l l automatically stand removed on 8,2.1991.
Smt. Kanij Rasul Flallick of vil lage Bara Balidanga,
P.O.Srea Pal ly, Distr ict Burduan, Uost Bongal uas disqualified
vide Commission's order-No.76/j,B-LA/87 dated 9.11.1987 under
section 10A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951
for her fai lure to lodge account of election expenses. Sha
however, lodged her account and explained tho reasons for
the default. Her disqualif ication uas however remotfod vida
Commission's ordar No.76/j'B-LA/80 dated 23.2,1988, in exercisa
of i t s pouers conferred by section 11 of the said Act. ;
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ELECT/OX COMMISSION OF INDIA . ,
BEFORE THE ELECTION COMMISSION OF .INDIA
• Reference Case No. 2(RPA) of 19S4
[Reference from the President of India under section .8A(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951]
In re : Disqualification cf Shri J. Venkatcswara Rao,former mcuibir of the Aadhra Pradesh Legislative,Assembly. . 1
OPINION
This reference from the President under section8A(3> re?.:! with Sectior SA(1> of the Representation i
' A y l h i i f 'of l).y. seel;s th; opinionp pElection Co^iiiiiisiOJi v r. the question whether SiuiJ. \'cz]:.^..'y •-'••"• Hac, fj::::tr ir.iruber of ike Ar.uhraPradesh Lcf^iauvc Assembly, may be disqualifiedasd, if so. for wii~t psrlod for committing the corruptpractice usJcr section 123(6) of. the said Act.
2. The relevant facts of the case, may be "riifiysfatcd as under :— •• •' ' '
(f) The tloclioil of Shri J. Venkatcswan Raoto the Ancihra Pradesh Legislative Asitab-ly from 277-Sathupa!li assembly ccn.-'itu-ency at a bye-election in January, 1979
. ' was declared void by the Andhra Pr.dsshHigh Court by its judceinent and ctderdated 23-4-80'in E.I'. No..2 of 197:-. TheHigh Court found Shri Rao guilty of cor-rupt practice under section T23(6) c: theRepresentation of the People Act, 1951for incurring or authorising the elec!i:i ex-
• pendkurc in excess of the' then pre^dbedmaximum limit of Rs. 10,500.
(1) Rs. 588.35 on the purchase cf f « ' froraRatnam Oil C"r:--~--~ -.»— --*-
(2) Expenditure on large quantities cc fu^ldrav.ii from Ravi Auto Service, v ' w
paili, but of which only a ncgligib';; frac-tion was shown in the account of electionexp;us:s;
(3) Expenditure on 465 Litres of petrci pur-chased from Shri Gcpala Krishna Petrol
. - Pump, Jagaxeddigudcm;
(4) Estimated expenditure of Rs. 2,":D onthe rent of 3 jeeps and a car used faring
• the campaigu period and the driver's :atta ;
(5) Estimatfd expenditure of Rs. 425 en thehire c'.arges and petrol for 4 G L - forone day;
(6) Rs. ,,300 on the p-' ' • - ; j - ;
flags from Shri D::.indakshmi Texdustnes, Rajahmundry;
In-
(7) Rs. 628.75 on the printing of rosters. from Kumari Lithos, Vijajwad2; and
(8) Rs. 4,000 by his Chief Election Apnt onthe election c -•• -_-:-'••—.
(iii) Aqainst the aforesaid order and pizaentdated'23-4-19S0 of the High Cour," ShriR-.o filed an pppcal before the SrrremcCcurt ;ii:d the Srprcm.- Court by it; ^:erimorder dated 20-5-1960. sD.ycu the .T;;ationcf the Kizh Cpuri'i ord:r per.di.-;";.;pc<alof that appeal. The Supreme CC.L.- "'- :
mafcly disniiised tlie aforesaid arrsa] on15-9-1983.
(ii) Shri Rno had shewn an expenditure of7,952.02 in the account of his elect::" ex-penses lodged. with the District £J;^ionOfficer, Khammam, as required unct; sec-,tion 78 of the "said Act. The High Court,however, fpund on evidence that "Shrl Rao _'had incurred or auhorised the fcli^ingexpenditure? also which he had not i^ownia his account of election expenses, vr. :—
Contd.
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While dismissing ti\c appeal, the SupremeVCourt observed in «s judgment dated
i
"Th in'i C'Ci-rt by it> jrtNmcrU set a.'i.ie theelection in the giiiisr.a t.:ai ih electedcandidate had intuited in corrupt piac-ices ami farther directed that the appel-lant who was the -returned, candidatewould be debarred ftrora contesting anyelection for a pcjioS of six years from,that date.
It appears that after the appcaj had been pre-ferred, this Court granted conditionalstay of ti!e operation, of the judgment. Thegeneral election to the Assembly has
• .been held i;i the meantime on 5-1-1983.The appellant in spate of the order ofstay .g.anti-d by th'S Court has not beenin a position to contest the said election.In the ncrrr.al course there is no possi-bili'v of any electiasa beirs held before198i:. By the time mcxt election is heldthe disqualification iknposed on- theappellant would have lapsed.
In that view of the matter we are satisfied. that the appeal has become academic and
from that point of view iea!ly infructuous.We, therefore, do nest proposs to go mtothe merits oi this appeal end accordingly
•we direct disposal cf the appeal .withoutexamination on mer i t "
# .(v) The Ebct:o>i Commission, by its letter dated
6-12-1983, brought to fee notice of the• Supreme Court that un&r the existing pro-' visions of secion 8A of the Representation
of the People Act, 1951, Shri J. Venkates-waTa Rao had not automatically incurreed
• ' disqual<t:chiiud' for six years as a- result•of the High Court's order dated 23-4-19 SOand that the question whether Shri Raoshould be .disqualified asad. if so, far whatperiod still remained to 2»e determined bythe President in terms of sab-section (1) and(3) of the said section 8A.
("•'I) In. reply tothe Ccmrnissioa's aforesaid letterdated 6-12-19S3, the Sepremc Court in-formed as follows in sis letter dated14-12-1933 :—
"The above Civil Appeal vra-» filed tinder sec-tion 116A o[ the Representation of thePeople Act, 1951 agaJasst the decision ofthe Andhra Pradesh Fferi Court in anElection Tct^icn, setting aside the elec-tion of J. Venkatesw^ra Rao en thegrounds of. corrupt pcacticcs. On theamendment of the Act ia 1976, irse periodof di;c|;ialificat: ,-n has to be determinedby tiw President of Icsdia unucr Section8A of the Act and-the maximum periodcan be 6 years from r&j dale from whichthe disqualification wisuld be operative.In view of the slay order of this Court,action as coi-t-.imptateii yjicei sucik-n S(A)had not been initiated.. When die appeal
.came up for hcarinv on 15-9-1983, coun-sel for both, it', .v;p-"w:t iMr. J. Vcnka-tesu^ra K.uo> aoii the kcspundcnt werep:es^n; in l:;e Court and ::; !i:eir p;vieneethe appe'il bu< fe<.-n di-r.ij-sed withoutexamination on merits, in considerationof tl.e fact that there has been a freshelection to the L:gida:ive Assembly on5-1-19S3 «ind i:i spite of ihe conditionalstay of the operatLa of ;hc decision of tlieHigh Court, tiie appellar.i did net con-test the election. 'Iliis -Court tuok theview that b.'fcre 19SS, no election is duein normal course and bv then the dis-qualificitiin that aiay be .fixed underthe Act may run cut. Il was for thecounsel for the appellant to contest thatthe disqualification, if any, incurred byShri J. Veakateswaxa Rso, also be setasicie. Koweer, since no sxich stand was
• taken, oa the considerations mentionedabove, the Court passed foe Order dismis-ning.ths appeal in -terras oi the signedorder." . • .
3. As a sequd to the judgrasat and order dated23-4-19S0 of the Anuhra Pradesh Hich Court andthe Interim crder dated 20-5-iyisO aad final orderdated 15-9-1983 of the Supreme Court as clarified bytheir letter daed 14-12-S3, referred to above, thequestion has now been raised before the President bythe- Secretary to the Anahra Pradesh LegislativeAssembly in terms of section SA(1) cf the Represen-tation of the People Act, 1951, whether Shri J.Venkateswara R.ao may be disqualified and, if so, forwhat period for contesting future; elections to Parlia-ment and State Legislature.
4. Before deciding thj abore question (he Presi- 'dent has referred ''is matter to the Commission for
"its opinion under Section SA(3> of the said Act. •Under the proviso to section 8A(1)» the period ofdisqualification shall in no case exceed six years fromthe date the High Court's order took effect i.e.15-9-1983 in the present case, when the SupremeCourt's stay crder dated 2O-5-19SO got vacated withits final order dated 15-9-1933.
5. Before tendering its opinion, to the President,the Commission decided to z-.fYord Shri YcnkafeswaraRao an opportunity of being heard in the matter.Shri Rao, however, did net nppear before the Com-mission in spite of ihe service of repealed notices onhim. In order to give full opportunity to Shri Rao, the •Commission adjourned tlie l-esrinj; several times as,somehow, the Commission's notices for such hearingwere received by him on some occasions even afrcF thedate of hearing was over, though such notices hadbeen sent to him sufficiently in advance. His only res-ponse to those notices was a iaco.-iic rep'y in his appli-cation dt. 3-9-84 in. which he <:r*reed that had therebeen a hearing o" his appeal by fr.e Supreme Courton merits, he would have succeeded in the appealas l;c had a very ;;nod case c:- merits. He also Mutedii-;it he had s'.rc.ii'y suilcfc-d rLr,»tJi!kal:rn kr movetitan 4 years and 5 month;, from 23-i-SO, i.e., the
contd..
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date of Iiich Conn's order, and desired that the Com-mission might send a repoit to the President exone-rating him from the disqualification. He also desi-red in that application that he may be given anojipoilunity of personal hearing if the Commission
-desire! to proceed with the mutter further. However,as already stated, he. again, did not appear at thshearing fixed for the purpose on the 24-th November,1984 for whr^h a notice was duly received by himon the 5th November, 1984.
6. It wi!! be obseiveJ from the above that Shri Raohas been found guilty of' corrupt practice une'er sec-tion 123(6) of the Representation of the People Act,1951 by the Midi Court of Andhra Pradesh and thatfin dins has not been upict by the Supreme Court inthe appeal filed by Shri Rao. The Commission isbound by the firxinc-; cf ths Hiph Court. The rele-vant facts cf the case as given in paragraph 2 herc-inabove would show (hat Shri Rao incurred or autho-rised an election expenditure far in excess of- thethen prescribed .maximum limit of Rs. 10,500. Ithardly needs to be stressed that the incurring or autho-.rising of election expenditure in excess of the' pres-
•cribed limit is a matter which ought to be viewedwith all seriousness. In this conext, it would be" aptto cite the following observations of the SupremeCourt in Kan-x.tr Lai Gupta Versus Amar Nath'Chawla (AIR 1975 SC 308) :
"The object of the nruvision limiting theexpenditure is two-fold. In the first place,it should be open to any individual or anypolitical party, howsoever small. to beab'c to contest an election on a footing ofeouality with any other individual or poli-tical party, howsoever rich and well fin-anced it rr.ay be, and no individual orpolitical party should be able to securean p:j\'antase over others by reason of itssuperior financial strength. It can hardlybe disputed that the way elections are heldin our country, money is bound to play
an important part in the successful pros-ecution of an. election campaignThe other objective of limiting expendi-ture is to eliminate, as far as possibit, the"influence of big money in the electoralprocess."
7. Shri Rao has not shown any mitigatip.i cir-cumstances why he should not be disqui/ifiedfor having committed the- above-men.-_cnedcorrupt practice oi incurring and authorising theelection expenditure far in excess of the pres~i'oedlimit. His contention that he has already sui;rcddisqualification from 23-4-80 is . obviously ' tonsbecause the very question whether he shotl: bedisqualified or not forms the subject-matter o" thepresent proceeding;. In view of the above, I c: notsee any reason why any leniency should be riowntowards -Shri Rao and why the pena! provisiors ofsection SA(1) of the Representation of Peep):-Act,1951 should not apply in refat'on to him \:\ii fullrigour.
.. 8'. Therefor?, I am of the opinion and holJ thatShri Venk;ttes-vara Rao iV.ould be disqualified indsrsection SA(1) o: the Representation of the PeopleAct, 1?51 for the fu'l period of 6 years fror. the15th September, 1983, i.e. the date of SurrsmeCourt's order ar.d from which date the High Ciurt'sorder took effect, for committing the corrupt prac-tice under section 123(6) of the said Act. I,.accord-ingly, tender my opinion to the above effect u thePresident in 'erms of section SA(3) of Repre.^ata-tion of the People Act, 1951,
• • - (R. K.TRIVEDD,CHIEF ELECTION COMMISSIONER OF I>O1A.
New; Delhi, • .The November 28, 1984. ' ;'
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• LIST OF PERSONS DISQUALIFIED UNDER SECTION 1OAOF THE R.P.ACT, 1951 AMD SECTION 24-E OF THE3&K R.P. ACT,1957 IN RESPcCT OF DAfliiU & KASHFIIRSTATE. :
STATE; BIHRRS.No. Particulars
of electionS.NO.& Name ofconstituency
DATE OF UIiSqUALIFICATIC^:-8.-i2i.|988_jj
Name & address of Reason forthe candidate disqualifi-
cationo
1. General electionto ths House oftha Paopla ~Bihar State.
25-Katihar Sh.Abu Nairn Chand,
Balrampur,P.O.ualKoia,L)istt •Katihar, Bihar
Failsd to lodgaany account ofelection expansss.
2 .
•3 .
4 .
- d o -
- d o -
- d o -
25-Katihar Shri Bhaguan Choudhary,Balthi Plaheshpur,DisttoKatihar,Bihar. -
25-Katihar Sh.Mohammed Ibrahim,UilT. Bh2nsbandho,P. O.Kurum,Dis.tt .Katihar,Bihar.
25-Katihar Shri Raghunath Hemraj,V i i l . & P.O.Saria,P.S. Oandkhara,Oistt.Katihar, Bihar.
' - d o -
- d o -
6. Geieral Electicnto BiharLegislativaAssesatOy f 198?
B.
9 .
1 0 .
-do* -do-
172-Marpup
-do-
Julasn Yadav Failed toVill. Sierv/a, lodgeP.O. 2"3?iki>.r v ia , ar§? account of^ a u l i , h i s electionDlstt. Madhubani,
1«£hri Janarda-'i Qioudhaiy?111 fr P.O. Babangeaaa, -ixlstt. HiagalpUr,Bihar,
Btoal Kumar Trlvedi,V1U & P.O. llarayanpur, -do-p.S , Bihpur,Distt. H lBihar,
«do». Unendar Shama»YUl, "Vishwaspur,P.O. Ciiraya,KLtt B lBihar,
2 ,71U, Bela,P.C« Beisira,Mst t . Uiagalpur,Elhar.
«do~
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STATE: HABYANA ^TE-OF DISQUALIFICATION: 8.2^1988 ^
S.No. Particulars S.No. and name Name and aodrc-ss Koason forof election. of constituency of the candidate Gisqualifi-
_ £.?"!~-3-2ni. _ __1_. 2,_ 3 ± 4,_ , _-_ _ _ 5.
1. General Election 22-Thanesar Shri Ami Chand, Failed to lod.to Haryana Vill.& P.O.Dabkherl, any account oLegislative . Kurukshetra. electionAssembly,!987. expenses.
2. -do— —do- Shri Babu Ram,Ward No. 5/i33,Ladwa, -do-Kurukshetra. '
3. -do— -do- Shri Raghbir Kanwal.,Vil l . Sirsma,P.O. Bir -do-Mathana, Kurukshetara.
- 4 . ' -do- - -de- Shri Ram Singh Umxi,' ' . . . Vill.& P.O. Umri, • -do-
Kurukshetra.
5. -do— -do- ' Shri Sur&nder Singh,S/o Madan Lai,
. Mahavir Colony, La-dwa, —do-. • . Kurukshetra.
6. -do- 75-Ghirai Shri Anand,phani SJiamlal, ' -do— •Disut. riissar,
7. • -do- -do- " Shri Umec CJ.ngh,Di.ani Raic.r> • —do-Tph, & DiVi-t- Hissar .
8. —do— . -do—.. . 'Shri Dalipa.,V:.I1. Pabra, -do-Teh. & u i s t t . Hissar .
9. -do- -do- Ghri 3a l ra i , •V:>.1-1. Si-ea/a'">o..a, ' r<lo-Teh- Hansi.- i i s t t . Hiss t r .
10. -do- -do- Shri Fia1-Pal, :
Vil l . Dabre- -do-Teh. &' u i s t t . H.isssx.
1 1 . -do- 70-Barwala . Siiri Kr4sb;r. .<ura.jr,uarwala, J i s t t . Hissar. -do—
12. -do- -do- Shri Zils Singh,Piakhi i-^as, . -do—Distt... Hissar-
L .
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STATE: HARYANA DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 8 .2 .1 938
1 . 2 . 4 . 5 .
13;Gtneral Election 77-Ra.tia. (SC) Shri Bahal Singh,toLegis" ; ; Lv<ASSG..1-1-. v t
, . -do-
1 5 .
16,
17.
18.
2 0 .
2 1 .
2 3 .
2 5 .
-ao-
- d o -
-do -
-do~
- d o -
- d o -
22. - d o -
- d o -
24. -do-
-do-
73 '-BhattuKalan
20-Shahabad
-do-
-do-
-do-
23~Pehowa
- d o -
- d o -
- d o -
-do—
Account not -.Vill.& P.O.Sadhanwas, lodged in theTah.Tohana'tDistt. Hissar.
Shri Ashok Kumar,Vill. Sarangpur,Teh. Adampur,Distt.^ Hissar.
manner requiredby l a w . . '-•• >••
Failed to lodgeany account ofelectionexpenses.
Shri Tej Parkash Singh,Vill. Dakala.P.O.Tigri, -do-Kurukshetra.
Shri Baljinder Singh,Vili, Kahangarh, -do^P.O. Kharindwa,-Teh. ThanesarjKurukshetj'a*
Shri Bhura,Vill. Samalkhi, - --.- -do-Teh. Thanesar,Kurukshetra.
Shri Makhan Lai, '•. '-•"".Vill. Bazidpur, -do^Teh. ThanesarjKurukshetra.
Shri Ram Kumar, -• : :.Vill.& P.O. Thol, • --do-Teh.- Thanesar,Kurukshetra.
Shri Ser Singh,H.No. 218,Shahabad,Kurujcshetra. .
-do-
Shri Jagan Nath,Vill . Kheri Shish Garan, -do-Kurukshetra*
Shri Pr i thi Singh, .......Vi l l . Jhinwar Heri, -do-Teh, Thanesax,Kuxukshetra^
Shri Parmod Kumar, . . •.; ,Khera Kuan,Pehowa, ' -do-Kurukshetra*
Shri Faqlxia Ram, . .Vil l . Cheeka,Teh.Guhla, -do-Kurukshetra.
Shri Bhagwan Singh.Gandhi Nagar,Pehowa, -do-
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1.
26. General Electionto HaryanaLegislativeAssembly,1987.
27. -do-
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
-do-
—do—
-do-
37. -do-
Failed tolodge anyaccount ofe le ctlonexpenses»
-do—
23-Pehowa Shri Mehaf Singh,Vil l . Sandhola,Teh. Pehowa,Kurukshetra.
-do- Shri Ram Chander,F i l l . Sarswati Khera,Teh. Pehowa,Kurukhetra.
-do- Shri Vikramjit,Vi l l . Mohanpur, - do -Teh- Pehowa,Kurukshetra.
-do- Shri Harnam Singh,Vil l . Bharian, —do-Teh. Pehowa,KurukshetTa.
25-Kaithal . Shri Bal Mukand,H.No. 110,Karnal Road, -do—
. . . Kaithal,Kurukshetra.-do- Shri Yashvir Singh,
H.No. 926/9, . -do—Moh. Kharadian,Kaithal,Kurukshetra.
-do- Shri Ram Lai,. 346/9,Chandana Gate, -do—
Kaithal,Kurukshetra.
44-Kalayat Shri Bhagat Ram,(SC) Vi l l . & P.O. Batta, - do -
Teh. Narwana, Dist t .J ind»48-Jind Shri Sunil,
H.No.222, Ward No. 4, -do—Bahadurgarh,Rohtak.
-do- Shrimati Janki,Vi l l . & P.O. Brah Kalan,-do—Dist t . Jind.
10-Naggal Shri Ran Karan, AccountVil l . & P.O.. Bar a, lodged i nTeh.& Dist t . Ambala. the manner
required bylaw.
47-Rajound Shri Jog Dhian, Failed t oVil l . & P.O.Naguran, lodge anyTeh. & Dist t . J ind, account of(Kalka-V.Bie Ghaggar) e lec t ion
c
STATE:3AnPlU4KASHMIR DATE_OF DISQUALIFIUATIO5 8.2.1988_
S.No, Particularsof election.
S.No. endname ofassembly
Name and addressof the candidates
Reason fordAsquoication.
U 2V
1. General Election 31-Wachito Jarcmu andKashmir Legis-l a t i v e Assembly,1987. .
2 ,
3 .
4«
5 .
6 ,
7.
8 ,
do -
- do -
- do -
- do -
- do -
— do —
32-Snopian
-do—
- do - . 52~Reasi
68~Billawar
76-Haveli
27~Chari-Sharie
~ do
do - . 43~Leh
Shri Pran Nath BhatS/o Shri Aftab Ram,R/o Chakoora,DisttoPulwama (J&K)
Failed tolodge anyaccount ofelectionexpenses,,
Shri Ayub MalikR/o Chowgan.Shopian, — do —Distt. Pulwama (J&K)
Shri Dawlat Hussain,S/o Shri Mohd Hussain, - do —SaidporajShopian,Distto Pulwama (J&K)
Shri Ashwani Kumar SharmaR/o Village Arnas, ~ doTehsil Mahore, Distt*Udhampur, (J&K)
Shri Abdullah Bhat,R/o Thai Lohaij,.,Tehsi l Billawar •,Dis t to Kathua (J&K).
Shri Bashir Ahmad'Bhatt,Villo & P.oO: Sawjian,Tehs.i.1 Havel i ,D i s t t * Poonch (J&K).
Shri Ghulprn QadirS/o Shri Khaliq l a t h e r ,R/o BachrooTeh Chadoora,Distto- Badgam (J&K).
- do -
- do -
- do -
Shr i Fayaz / J a ,S/o Shri Abdul Ahad,P. 0 Hanzan,Teh-..ChadooraDis t to Badgam (J&K) •
Shr i Lobzang StanzinC/c Hotel K. Sar ,Leh, (J&K)
- do —
- do
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' STATE OF OAHi'il •& KASHMIR. OATE OF DISC'UALIFICATIC:::_8^2.1988 ^
1_._ _2a ; 3 , 4 , _ ' 5?__
10, General E lec t ion 57-Bari Shri Bhagat Earn Shag a t , F a i l e d t oto Jammu and Brahmana(SC)Vill. Chak Mian, lodga anyKashmir Leg is - Sukha Singh, nccuTsnt ofl a t i v e Assembly, Tehsil~Sishnah o.U:: Ion1987. D i s t t . Jamm-j (J&K) c i p c r i s e s .
11 , - do •- 61-Jammu West Shr i Rattan L a i ,Ga l i No, 11,Talab T i l l o , - d o -Jararnu (J&K.)
12, - do - ' -do- Shri Subhash Chaader ,299-Kxishan Magax, ~ d o -Jaramu (J&K)
13, -do-> • - d o - Shr i Subhash ChanderSharma,
. • . Gurah Bakshi Nagar, • — do —Jaramu (JS.K)
14, -do- . -do- Shri Sushil Bali,149-Rajpura iviangotrian, —do—Jarainu (J&K)
15, - d o - - d o - Shr i Shanti Sarup Sharraa,Ho No, 293rExchange Road, —do—Jammu { k )
16, —do— —do— Shri Farakh Javed,316-Mohella J u l i a n a , ~ d o -Jamrau (J&K).
17, -do— - d o - Shr i Kulvinder S ingh ,F-355,Ghana Nagar, —do—Jammu (JS.K).
1 8 e -do— ' . - d o - ' Srr.te Pushap L a t a , .333^Gursh Qasim N a g a r , —do—(Baksh i Naga r ) Jaiamu ( J&K) .
1 9 . - d o - - d o - Shri Ajay Sharraa,H.lio, 141-Rchari Colony, —do—Jammu (J&K)O
20* - d o - 62-Jammu E a s t 3 h r i Ashwani Kumar ,• • 91 ,Street Malhotrian, -do—
^ Jammu Tawi, (j&K).
21 , -do- -do- ' Zhrx Pav/an Kuma±,30,Pureni Mandi, —do—•Tanmu. ( )
220 -do- -do- Shri Sanjay Kishore Gupta»263,Pratap Gbar. - d o -Jammu Tawi (j&K).
-STATE : 3ABMJ AMD KASHMIRDATE OF UISQUALIFIUATION: 8.2.1938
2 3 . General Eloct ion 62-Jammu Eastr- t o Jammu and^ Kashmir Legis*
l a t i v e Assembly,1987.
24
2 5 .
2 6 .
2 7 i
2 8 #
2 9 .
3 4 .
- d o -
- d o -
- d o -
- d o -
' - d o -
- d o -
- d o -
- d o -
. 64-Marh(SC)
- d o -
65-Akhnoor
. - d o -
3 0 .
3 1 .
3 2 .
3 3 .
- d o -
.—do—
—do-
- d o -
- d o -
—do—
66-Chhamb
. 3—Langa te
- d o - - d o -
Shr i Ram Sarup ChaudharyBakshi Nagar,Jaramu Tawi, (J&K).
Shri Hari On Raina,262,Masat Ghar,Jammu.Tawi-180001.(J&K)
Shri Bhushan Lai Gupta,Near Raghunath Mandir,Jammu Tawi (J&K).
Shri Dewan Chand,V i l l . Pinjor Chack Kana..Teh. & Distt. Jammu (J&K).
Shri Krishan Lai,Mohalla Parian,Jammu Tawi, (J&KJ. .
Shri Jagdish Datt, .Ward No. 6, AkhnoorDistt, Jammu (J&K)
Shri Jagdish Raj,V i l l , Ganjyal, P.O.Choki,Teh. Akhoor^Distt. Jammu.
Failed tolodge anyaccount ofelectionexpenses
- d o -
-do-
-do-
-do-
—do-
-do-
Shri Sat Pa l ,5/84, Akhnoor, D i s t t . Janmu*. -do—
Shri Shy am Lai ,V i l l . Chack S inga,P.0 .G 3udy a l ,Teh,& D i s t t . Jamffiu{J&K).
Shri Ved Vyas,8-A,Gandhi Nagar,Jammu Tawi
Shxi.-GlwRasaat~Mcch.i, .S/o Shri Gh.Ahmad Mochi,R/o Sherhama,Bistt.Xupwara.
Shri Mohd. Sultan,S/o Shxi Haji Ah ad Ganai,fanditpora,P.O.KaralgundP i s t t . Kupwara (J&K.).
-do- .
~do~
r-do-
- d o -
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STATE: KERALA DATE OF DISQUALIFICATIONS.2.1SS3
S .*. o. P art icularsof sleet ion
3.No.andname of
Name .af Reasons fcsrcont est ing d isqual if ieat ion.candidates
3
General Electionto the KeralaLegislativeAssembly- 19&7
2 .
3 .
5 .
6 ,
-do-
-do-
52-Coyalmannam(3G)
9if-Palai'"
-do-
91 -Sttumanocr
-do-
S/Shri
P.Thayankan3/0 Pazhani,Kulakkaa HarijanColony, Coyalmannem'Di'stt. Palghat,Kerala.T.R. Karunakaran,That t. at hupar am b i l ,Pa la i . P.O. , Dis t t .Kerala.
Joseph,Aikkarethu,Kaezhoor P. 0^ D i s t t .Kcttayem, Kerala.
Ac count n o tlodged afc a l l
„ ,-do-Kottaya
-do-
y Kuttiappan,"Parayil House,4rppookara East, -do-Distt .'Kottayam,Kerala.P. 3.V ij ayan P a rumbunchayil tPe rutnbunchayil,Thiruvrunpad i ,Neezhur, '" "*•>. -do—Dist t . Kottayam,Kerala.
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STATE: WEST BENGAL DATE OF DISQUALIFICATION: 8 .2 .1988
S . P a r t i c u l a r s of "SJ/Io, & Name Kr.: £ , \dare*s . ?'-r • cr. ?No.'election of Assembly of Gcc.tz-s~.i::/ i\ ,"! ..
Constituency. caridxo.aLe • ~. L i •'...•.
3 II1111111111 311111115111111 31 i I1. General election I^f-Madarihat
to West Bengal (3T) • Shri Subhash . Failed t -Legislative ,. Karjee, lodgeAssembly ,1987 . . Uttar Rangalib- account
azna, P ,C« Harig- in UIQ. . - . . " ' alibazna, ' " Knnr.er
Dist t , Ja lpa i - required" . . ' . • .'.. guri, ' West Bengal by lav;,.
2 . -do- . ,••'30-Karandighi Shri. Gao\vdt:uiy Failed toHa tan Kumar, lodge any
• •.-" • .- ' -P.O.Raiganj account\ -• -' . Ukilpara. " of e lect -
• '' .. Dist.West Dinajpur,. ion• •'-' 'West Bengal, expenses.
3 . -do- • . -. -do- Shri lid. Faruqe -do~• • ' • • . • • A d i l , * . ' - • .
• • • • • • . - , - - . - • • - . V i l l . r l u r h i l , •
..••-• . • : : P . O . M a d a r g a c h i ,. " ••• . '".. Dis t , West r : na jpu r ,
;•• West Bengal.
^« . - d a - ' : -do- '•• Shri Hasibur Rah am an ,. . •_ .. Vi.ll. Uttar- Qalkhola,
' , ' " ; P .0, Dalkhola, _do-, . •- •• ' '- .Dvst^West Diiiajpur,
. • West Bengal»• •.
^ , .- _4o- - . . • 33-Kushmandi Shri Ananda RQr, _do(SG) viH c Sialkhair,
P -.O.SIbKrishnapUr,. . " , , Dist. West Dinajpur,
West Bengal. -6 ' ~do~ ', 3^-Itahar Shri 'Jitsndra Nath _da-
• Sarkar, •" . .-• - - Vil l . Banbole,
P ,C, Sonapur,Dist, Wost Dinajpur,
' . • • Ac.-. ..- b-r . . jv ,a . j . s
J ^ P — ' ' " . ' -^r-L jaoan hasda, _do_Vil l . Hangarati,P.C. Telighata,Dist, West Dlnajpur,West Bengal. P '
Contd,.
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STATE: U£3T jJENGAL_
1 2 •_.
DATE CT DIS_QUALIFICATI0_W:_8._2._I9a8
i*.~"~ 5
8
9.
General electionto West BengalLegislativeAssembly ,1987-
- d o -
36-Tapan (3T)
puDi
Failed talodge argraccountof e l ec t -
ionexpenses
10 - d o -
Shri BholaHem bran,Vill. BaraDurgapur,P ,0. Ramkrishna-pur, Dist, WestDinajpur,West Bengal.
8>+-Bagdaha(SG) Shri AshutoshMajumdar,Vill. purba Euda,P.O. 'Baliadanga,Dist. Noth 2^-?arganas,West Bengal.
Shri San tosh Failed t oKumar Qiosh, lodgeVill. Chandrapur, accountp .0. Duttapukur, with. inDist.Worth tine ansi2i+-parganas, in theWest Bengal. manner
requiredby law.
89-Aindanga-
1 1 . 97_Haroa (SG) Shri SubodhKumar Tikader,Vill. Bakchara,P.O.Baikara,Dist. North
1 2 . _dc- 135-Panihati
13. -do- 157-Vidyasagar
Failed t olodge aryaccountof e l ec t -ionexpenses.
West Bengal.
Shri Durgesh _do-Bandcpadhy ay a,Sun i t Banerjee-"Road,P .O.aiolabazar,North 2 f-p a rganus,Pin 743 170,West Bengal.Shri Ghedhi Lai Failed t oPoddar, lodge153 A, Kuktarara accountBabu Street. withinCalcutta-7 , ' time andWest Bengal.. in the
matterrequiredby law.
Contd«
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PARTICULARS OF CANDIDATE WHOSE DISQUALIFICATIONWAS REMOVED* U-N3ER SECTION 11 OF THE R.P.ACT?195/)_.
Nama & address of Name of Date of Date on uhichcandidate constituancy disquali- disqualification
' fication.
Smt.Kanij Rasul 27S«-rcontesuar 9.11.1937 23.2.198S•
V i l l . Qara Balidanga',P.O. Sree Pa l l y ,D i s t r i c t Gurduan,Uest Bengal.
- 44 -
C H APT_Er\--I V
DISPOSAL OF ELECTION PETITIONS
During the month of Fabruary, 1988, tha
Commission received intimation about disposal of
3 election petitions in the various High Courts.
Intimation regarding disposal of 1 appeal in
slection matters was received from the Supreme
Court. Intimation regarding filing of 3 raora
appeals in election matter uas also received
from tha Supreme Court.
Details of election petitions filed, disposed
of and pending in ths High Courts and appeals in tha
Supreme Court following (a) Gansral Election to tha
Legislative Assemblies held in 1377-79, ("b) General
Election to tha House of the People, 1980,-
(c) General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies*
1980, (d) General Election to the Legislativs
Assemblies, 1933, (a) General Election to tha
House of tha People, 1984-35, (f) General .Elections
to the Legislative Assemblies, 1934, (g) Gsneral
Elections to the Legislative Asssmblies, 1935 and
(h) General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies,
1987 are furnished in the nine statements (i to IX)
annexed.
- 45 -
As on 29.2.88, 207 election petitions and 92'
appeals are pending in various High Courts and
Supreme Court of India respactiusly. A statsment
(No.X) shouing the period for uhich these election
petitions in different High Courts and appeals in
the Supreme Court are pending is also annexed.
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-XGENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1977-79
. °f. .eJ-eJ5_ti_o niigh £our£s and ap
i. Pending in ,,tha
(As on.29 . 2.1988 ),
S.No. Name of Stats/" yj^Bctipn_ J .etXtXoVis '£n Vh.'s Jih^^^^^'^f^J^^^^^Jihi^Union ' . Filscf_ _. ^ ^ PAs£O'sXii JOf '. * I " *'_PendTng" Tile'd CTer r i to ry , Up't'cT'thV *~'~T3VrTnV~Y°t"al "iJpto the
end of the end of_ _ last month_ iE°Hth» _ _ > ' last
"" 2 "" "" "" """ "' "*"3~" ™ "" '4 '" '" 5 6™ ~"7"" " *8 ~9"
"
_1_ ._ X-I.Andhra Pradesh (1978)2.Assam (1978)3.Bihar (1977)4.Haryana (1977)5.Hiniachal Pradesh {1977)6.3ammu & Kashmir ( i977) .7.Karnataka (1978)8.Karala (1977)9.f'1adhya Pradssh (1977)10.Maharashtra (1978)II.Meghalaya ( i976)i2.Nagaland (1978)lo .Or issa (1977)14.Punjab (1977)i5.Rajasthan (1977)16.Sikkim (1979)17.Tamil Nadu (1977)18.Uttar Pradesh' (1977)i9.Uast Bengal (1977)UNION TERRITORIES: •2O.Dalhl "(J977T
Goa,Daman & Diu (1977)22.Mizoram (1979)23.Pondicherry (1977/
'Supjreme Cour t ^__p_f___^ __P endingDur'ing Tbtzlthe
12
219317519741928131<9616182a371
4122
21931751974192813196161820371
4122
219
3175
1974
' 192813
196
161828
371
4122
6 •
362
44662
11104
59
12
6362
44662
11104
57
12
6362
44662
11
104
57
12
Total: 333 333
* Goa granted Statehood u.a. f .30.5.87
333 72 70 70
**Granted Statehood u.e.f.20.2.1987.
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GENERAL ELECTION TO THE LOK SABHA. 1980
_fJu_mbar_ of e lec t ion jJetit^Lgna -file_d_>L disposed[ p_fj .Ps.Td,VR ,V1 thei
(As on 29.2.1988 . ) •
"f-ja'nie" V f "State"/"* X.1}.-.,Union FilocT _^ PX^R03*^ ^ ^Territory. U p*f o' VhV " * "D'u'rTng* "Tot a 1"
end of themonth... i non th^^ „
111
_ . 211111461212
132
121
1 . Andhra Pradash2. Bihar3. Gujarat4 . Himachal Pradesh5. Haryana6. Dammu & Kashmir7. Karnataka8. Kerala9. fiadhya Pradesh10.Maharashtra11 .0r i33ala.Rajasthan13.Tamil Nadu14.TripuraI5.ut t 'ar Pradesh16.Uast BengalUNION TERRITORIES:1?.rtrunachai Pradash18.Delhii9.Dadra & Magar Havsl i
114211211461212
142
121
111
211111461212
132
121
PendTng"'A'p'p'ea*l's"i'n' The _gu£^Filed Di,sposi3d_£f\ " '
Lrp~to"thV Duringend of the
, last month month8 " ~ "9 '10 "* ""IT
41
Pending
1"2
21
1113
—112
21
112
To t a l : 59 54 54 16 12 12
Granted Statehood u . s . f . 20.2.1987.
GENERAL ELECTION TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES, 19.8,0
fU^mbgr o f .s_le.cti_o_n_,J?.eJ^iti°Jls. S.\\eP.K .^•s-R0.s.B.ci. PX>. Pending i n the ." ' I j i yh Courts _a,nj jap_£ea_ls_ji.n tha^j3Ufij:j2mer Cpurt^
(As on 29.2.1988 ) .
'b."No'» 'f-ja'nis V f S'tatV/"* X ^ ^ ^ ^ o T l ^ X ^ X i P X ' X d ^Union F T I Q C T " ^ PA€FL°XeA _°X'.* S **_ Panding"" File~d__ i,sPTO_s_ed_ f 7. ...PendingT e r r i t o r y . Upt'o""t'h'e" "*'*"D"urTng*"YoTal- LTpto"'thB' BurThg "fotel
end of tha ' end of the_ las t month m°nth_« • _ _ ^J.s i IBor)th month „
I!1"" 7.".". ~'2., Z\ Z Z 1 Z Z2Z Z Z.? Z Z Z _5Z ... Z I 6 I Z _7Z _ 1 1 1 1 _ ...9_ 1 1 l!1'o.', Z 1 1 I1"2"""1 . Bihar 39 28 - 28 11 4 3 - 3 1
2 . Gujarat 5 . 4 - 4 1 1 1 1
3 . Kerala 8 8 . ' - 8 - 2 ~ 2 - 2 - '
4 . Madhya Pradesh 23 23 - 23 . 5 ' 5 - 5
5. fianipur 4 4 - . 4 - 1 1 - 1 _
6. Maharashtra 15 15 - 1 6 - 2 1 1 1
7. 0r is3a 4 4 ', - 4 - ' - . - - - -
8 . Punjab 42 41 - 41 1 11 9 - 9 2
9 . Rajasthan 20 18 - 18 2 -
10.Tami l Nadu 17 17 *. 17 - 11 10 10 1
1.1.Uttar Pradesh 29 27 - 27 2 9 9 - 9
* i2 .Arunacha l Pradesh 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 _ 1 _
5 i3 .Goa, Daman & Oiu ' 2 2 - 2 - - - - - -
14.Pondicherry 1 1 - 1 - _ _ - _ _
TOTAL: 211 194 - 194 17 47 42 42 5
*• CrnntoH ntatuboati u . o . f . 20 .7 .1907.'3 L,Od i j r o t i L o i J a t a L o h u u t l U . a . P . 3 U . U
-49 -
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE tEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES,1982
ft umber of _slecti_cn__p_etJ.J:jUms_JJ-J-^dj^isJDosod^pJJ^ pe.nding, ,i.n_ tThai n tha S ' l T l V V "
(As on 29 . 2.1988 ) .
S. No. Name Vf State"/" X1X?3X^nZP^AT.tTplnVTn^h'e Ji^^S'^Ijii'^P^^^'iDji^ SuFr'ema UToTIrt'.Union Filed__ ^ QijiPR3?.^ °X ' * 11L_-.P^"^i"'V Filed ~ DispbseiT^r^"• ' "PendtrioTerr i tory . Up'to"*t"h'e "~~"DurTng To ta l " *U*p'to"*the' Durlnglbtel
end of the end of the, „. «. l a s t month montjn. . l a s t month month
jy ~ ...2" r. J 111 i3i i _ 21 _ 115! _. i i c 117~ " i z i z . i ...9~ z. _ i"is .'i l u i i^ir5
174
1 .2 .
3 .
4 .
5 .
Himachal PradeshHaryanaKerala
West BengalN ag al an d
12
27
15
8
4
12
27
14
8
3
1227
14
8
3
--
1
-
1
517
4
-
2
,517
. 4' -
2
TOTAL: 66 64 64 28 28 28
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES, 1983
]ju_rnb_a_r_o_f q l e c t i o n p e t i t i o n s ^ f i l e d , d i s p o s e d . a/j pend ing i n t h ai^inji ^our fcs _and_ a_pj3eals i n t h ^ S u p r e m e C o u r t .
(As o n 2 9 . 2 . 1 9 8 8 ) •
3. No. 'Na'me'Vf State/" ^leV£iUnion F i l e d ^ ^ ^ Disposed jjf _Ter r i to ry , - Upt' o"' "th'e" * * * "Du'rTng* ToTal
end of thel a s t roont-h monhh., .
" 1 " ~ •* "2~ ~ ;• ~: z:: ~?: z zr* z z z 'jc ^z^—?•
SupVeme8.t 1.5t?ilA-Cl.t_. .^"LTpt>o"tnV Sur'i ngToialend of thelast, month month
'8 ~~ ~9 •" "To " ""17 12
1 .2 .
3 .
4 .
5 .
6 .
7.
Andhra PradeshAssam
Jaramu & Kashmir
Karnataka
M8ghalaya
Tr ipur a
Delhi
39
6
76
22
5
4
14
39
6
48
22;-' 5
4
14
396
4822
54
14
28
14
1
4
1
3
TOTAL: 166 138 138 28 20 14 14
-51 -
GENERAL ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE. 1984-85
Number o f p^jj^jjj^j^J[Jf^_si£P£JlS,H i n j i . Cpu j:\s__a_nd_ j3j3£e>aJLsi_ in_ J;JT§_JSup rem
£JlS£LJ?JjL ,P.ejx[i_n3__i_n___bhg£ t
S.No. Nams of State/" ~E_lec£_Lan .PetTtTo*ris"''i'ri 'the* JUnion Filed_ ^ pijspqsVd* cif * " " " 'Terr i tory . Upt'o"" the ""burThg ToTa
end of thel a s t rnrjn'hh month.
II1! Z ~ Z27 " " ~1ZZ I 3 I Z Z ? Z Z Z 5 H S I
(As on 29 .2 .1988 ) .
_C_ou_rJ:_s. ^ppeaj^i iVf _ThB_ ^yjpV&niir
1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .8 .9 .1011121314UN1b1617
Andhra PradashAssam8iharGujaratHaryana3ammu & KashmirKarnatakaKeralaMadhya Pradesh
.Maharashtra
.Orissa•Punjab• Uttar Pradesh.West BengalION TERRITORIES:•Lakshadueep
525222112212
156
1.Dadra & Nagar Havali 1.Oolhi 4
412121
a»
1211
_132
113
Upto' th'e DuringTotalend of thelas t mnrith month
Z Z ...9_ I _ IJP" .'I Z111412121
_1211_
132
113
1131
_11__ *1_.224
• _
_
1
4_1
_2__—
——
6-
- _1
1 1 3
1
1
TOTAL: 54 36 36 18
- 52 -
GENERAL SUCTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES, 1984
C.ouTpiQ_ j^nd^jippejals i n tha Supreme Court.
(As on 29.2.1988 )•
S.No. Name of State/" ^JKP^X^JCJ^^X^XRPK.X^yh^.K^^Z^?^Jii'~£^J^a^^liBZ§hF SyJP£J?VeX2?XJUnion Filod_ __ _ ^ _ _ PAsJ?S^sfiSLSiZ.-l' lll-.P"011""^'^""* "Filed i sp. o s ed j) r_""~~H"Ter r i to ry . Upt'o'VhV ' D'urTng To ta l uVtcT 'th'e* " " ' DuVing total
end of the end of the_ _ l o s t monf.l\ monthi.. . l a s t month month
ix..... ~2.- z z z z z ixi - z i z z z 'jc _. z i6i i zxi z i n "i z z I>I i i . :JS I l u i i i1 . Tamil Nadu 5 4 - 4 1 2 - - - 2
2 . F lanipur 4 1 - 1 3 - - ~ _ _
* * 3 . A r u n a c h a l P radesh 1 1 - 1 - 1 _ - _ 1® 4 i Go a, Daman & D i u 1 1 - 1 - - - - - -
* * 5 . n i z o r a m 1 1 - 1 - • - - - -
TOTAL: 12 8 - 8 4 3 3
* * Gran ted S t a t e h o o d u . o . f . 2 0 . 2 . 1 9 8 7 .
® Goa g r a n t e d s t a t e h o o d u . e . f . 3 0 . 5 . 1 9 8 7 .
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE: ASSEMBLIES. 1985
f^ pending in_ thet
Number qf .3j. cjbJ.p_n_j3j2 tJ.J i_ojTS_ J ^ ^ ^ ^ jHijjh. Courts and appeals i n tha
(As on 29.2.1988 )•
UnionTerritory.
FilcTcf . 4 „ „ t Qis'ooVed j3jF ' * ^Pendi rigU pt o"' YhV "Dliri nond of thelaa t m<">rrfch month
F i l
1 .
2 .
3 .
4 .
5 .
6 .
7 .
8 .
9 .
1 0 .
1 1 .
1 2 .
1 3 .
1 4 .
Andhra Pradssh
Assam
Bihar
Gujarat
Himachal Pradesh
Karnataka
Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh
Orissa
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Uttar Pradssh
Pondicharry
V4
45
9
12
26
26
54
8
12
24
2
74
1
17
1
15
6
1219
22
47
8
10
15
240
1 .
i o t a .
~~6~
17
1
16
6
12
19
22
47
8
10
15
2
40
1
L
7
_
3
29
3
-
7
4
7
-
2
9
-
34
~" """ "* *S
8
1
2
1
8
3
9
20
2
" -
7
1
15mm
Upto theend o f
9
2
1-
-
2 .—
2
-
-
2
-
2 ' '
t h e
2
1
2
2
2
2
2
1
6
3
7
20
2
5
1
13
TOTAL: 314 215 216 98 77 11 11 66
- 54 -
.N.T.TjLx
GENERAL ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES. 1987
jMujTi>bj3_3?__o_f; Pj-sj^tj.oj)^etj.tj.^jis^^fi2^ejlj^}j^pj3^^^fj^ p and ing i n the
(As on 29.2.1988 ) .
"s.No. 'Name "of StaYs'/"* Tj-?Syjj°j£l'p.tJ^X°pK'yA.'&A Ji^llS^S^ji-"^P.PA^ff"4J5 "th'£ 'SuFr'gm'B 'Cou'r't'Union F"iled_ __ piopose'd JDJF * * "J^_ ^PlTndi r~g "" T i 1 e.d^_"^bfiposelPoT ^ ^T e r r i t o r y . Upt'd'"'t'hV **'*"D'u'rTng ""Total. 'iTp'to' "thV DuVi.ng total
and o-f the end of the__ l a s t ror'nt!ri mont_h» . lwsjb jinn-th month
ZfS~ ~ 2 ^ "I I I I C H 1 ? Z "1' ZKl H6Z ~TT" ~ "2 2 9 I Z ~"1D" "*'""iT *"*
1 .2 .
3 .
4 .
HaryanaDammu & Ka^i mir
Kerala
Usst 3eng al
. 13
21
17
1
112
21
13
1120
4
TOTALi 51 14 16 35
- 55 ~
STATEMENT - X
STATEMENT SHOWING PERIODS FOR WHICH ELECTIONPETITIONS IN THE HIGH COURTS AND APPEALS INTHE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ARE PENDING.
S.I
1 .2 .3 .4 .5 .
• 6 .7 .8 .9 .10111213141516171819202122
UN
1 .2 .3 .
* * 4 .a 5.
6 .7.
\lo . Kama of State/Union Territory
1 .
Andhra PradashA s s amBiharGujaratHaryanaHimachal Pradesh3ammu & KashmirKarnatakaKerala
.Madhya Pradesh
.Maharashtra
.Clanipur
.Meghalaya
.Nag aland
.Orissa•Punjab.Rajasthan.Sikkim.Tamil Nadu• Tripura..Ut tar Pradesh,LJS3t BengalION TERRITORIES:
Arunachal PradeshDelhiLakshadueepMizor amGo a, Daman & Diu
Less
-
than1 yearHC2 .
_
—11
20'_4
_-
__——
__ •
_
mm
_
-
_
_
Dadra & Nagar Haveli -Pondicharry
TOTAL:
—
35
sc3. •6_1-—1_3132——_1—5_2—8- • •
_
-
—
—
33
Between1-2 year
HC SC4 . 5.
3— -
311
_ - 5 •
— _
— —
— —
165
- —- —- -
1- _- -
_ ' -
3• ~
1_ _
— -_ _
- •»
- 39 ,
Setueens 2-3
HC6 .
-
4293—_17
—7'4
-— - -
29-
-34
u
_-—_
—
00
YrsSC
y .
2—_
——__—1_
-—__ '—1_
1-
_-—_
—
5
{As on 29-2
BatueBn. 3-4
HC8 .
t
3f
—. 1
——13--
2—
• _ .1-2A
1
—
—
20
Yrs.SC9 .
3—2———
1—-——-__1-
1-1-
_
—
——
9
.1988
Over4 yeHC1 0 .
__
141—_
29_1—_—1
-12_
3-
-—
—
52
)
a r sSC1 1 .
__-_
_
-
1-—
11_
—3-
-—
6
* * Granted Statehood u .a . f . 20.2.1967.® Goa granted Statehood u .e . f . 30.5.19S7.
- 56 -
Jftf f Eg-V
W CAN CY STf.JEf:j!N TS
At the end of February, 1988, there ware three'
vacancies in ths Council of States. Thsre uare 13
vacancies in the Houss of the People and 20 vacancies
in the different Legislative Assemblies. Thase
vacancies do not include 22 vacancies arising out
of the disqualification of P.LA3 of Punjab Legislative
Assembly and 2 vacancies arising cut of expulsion
of tuo members of Pcndicherry Legislative Assembly.
There uere 104 vacancies in the Legislativ3
Councils of different States.
Detsi-ls 'of ths vacancies are shown in the
annexurs (Annexure-l). Details of elections
declared void by the concerned High Courts and
cases of expulsions/ disqualifications pending
in the High Courts/Supreme Court are shoun in*
the Annsxurn-II. • -
- 57 -
TOTAL NUMBER, OF SEATS IN COUNCIL OF STATESAND LEGISLATIVE COUNCILS AND VACANCIES..
S.No.&Union
Name of S ta te /T e r r i t o r y •
Counci lTo ta l
(As
of State3Vacant
C R
on 29. 2/1988)
Leqislative CouncilTotal Vacant
C R
123456789
10111213141516171819202122232425UN
1.2 .3 .4 .5 .6 .7 .
.Andhra Pradesh
.Arunachal Pradesh
.Assam
.Bihar
.Gujarat
.Goa
. Haryana
.Himachal Pradesh,Danimu& Kashmir.Karnataka.Kerala.Madhya Pradesh.Maharashtra.Manipur.Meghalayaf Mizoram.Nagaland.Orissa.Punjab.Rajasthan.Sikkim.Tamil Nadu.Tripura.Uttar Pradesh.West BengalION TERRITORIESAndaman&N.IslandsChandigarhD3dra & N. Ha v e i lDelhiLakshdueepPondicherryDaman & Diu
1817
2211
1534
129
1619
1111
107
101
181
3416
3
1
96
3663
78
34
61 21.
108
233 3 8 1 * 102
CeCasual vacancies,R=Uacancies due to retirement.NB:Oetaiis of vacancies are shown in the enclosed statement
<Annexure-I)
* Total seats include members nominated by Governor concerned^.
- 53 -
TOTAL NUMBER OF SAND STATE L£ GI5LA l l ' t
IK THE HOUSE: orASSEMBLIES mQ
THE PEOPLEVACANCIES
(As on 29.2,1988 )
S".N"OT "Name a"f~St"a~a7 TJoiTsa o f tha People L e g i s l a t i v e AssemblyUnion T a r r i t o r y Total Uacant Total }L£.t
Z\L Z. Z Z _ Z !'Z 1 1 1 1 1 I C Z Z ZIC1111 !•_ _ 1 1 1 _ £1 . Andhra Prads3h 42 - 2942 . Mrunachal Pradesh 2 - 3 03. Assam 14 - 126 1A. Bihar 54 2. 324 " 35. Gujarat 26 1 182 16. Go a . 2 - 287. Haryana - 10 2 908 . Himachal Pradesh 4 - 68 -9. Damrnu & Kashmir 6 1' 76*lO.Karnataka. 28 - 22411.Kerala ' 2 0 1 14012.Hadhya Pradesh 40 - 32 0 4.13.Maharashtra 48 - 28814.Manipur 2 - 6015.Maghalaya 2 1- 6016.i'1izoram 1 - 4 017.Nagaland 1 1 6018.0rissa 21 - 14719.Punjab 13 - 117 32O.Rajasthan 25 1 200 12i.Sikkim 1 - 3 222.Tamil Nadu 39 1 234**23,Tr ipura 2 - 60 124.Uttar Prads* 85 2 425 225.Jest Bengal 42 - 294 2UNION TERRITORIES^ '
1 . Andaman & N . I s lands 1 — • — -2 . Chandigarh., 13 . Daman & Diu 14 . Oadra & Nagar Havel i 1 - - -5. Dalh i 7 - 56® - 16» Lakshadueap . 1 - - - -7 . Pondicherry 1 - 30 1
" T I 543 " T3' 4005 "2TT
* Excluding 24 seats earmarked for Pakistan occupied t e r r i t o r y ,* * Assembly dissolved. ' .Q Metropolitan Council Constitusncies. • -N0 TE;. Details of vacancies are shown in ths statement
enclosad (Annaxure-I).
- 59 -ANNEXURE-I
VACANCIES IN PARLIAMENT AND STATE LEGISLATURES
(As on 29.2.88)
NaTne of" S"ta"te7' No.""o7"~ HO. ~& Na~me of "Caus"e "of "Date"" of ~Data~"ofJJni_qn TeTtitov^ Sea_ts Const i tuency vacs_ncy va_can_cy_ £ o l l __ 1 ._~ ""_ 2. " ~ ~ _ 3~_ r ~_T_T_"" ~ 4 . _ V " " 5 . ~ "67 _
RQmarks
1 .
2 .
3 .
Bihar
Uest Bengal
Uttar Pradesh
1
1
1
By
By
By
PlLAs
PILAs
I*lLAs
COUNCIL OF STATES
Death
Death
Regn.
1 6 .
22.
16.
1
8
2
.87
.87
.88
2 8 . 3 .
-
88
Tha Commission dscidadnot to fill those seatsas the term expireson 2.4.68.
HOUSE OF THE PEOPLE
1 . Bihar 2 38-Sasaram(SC)
2. Gujarat 1-
3. Haryana 2
4. 3ammu & Kashmir 1
Death 31.7.86 Election Petition pent'ing.Hou8uer,summary revisionordered uith 7.3.88 as thad,ate of f ina l publication.
12-Sheohar
18-Godhra
10-Sirsa(SC)6-Faridabad5-Udhampur
Ragn.
Death
DeathDeathDeath
24 .
2 0 .
3 0 .18.27.
2.88
11.87 ;
10.87 '12.87 !11.87
Electoral rolls underrevision.
-do-
contd....
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2. 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 .
5 .
6 .
7 .
8 .
9 .
Kerala
Meg ha la ya
Nagaland
Rajasthan
Tamil Nadu
1
1
1
1
1
4-Calicut
2-Tura
Nagaland
21-Pali
24-(*ladura
10. Uttar Pradesh 2 56-Allahabad81-Qaghpat
Death
Regn.
Regn.
Death
22
16
3."
10
. 1 0
. 2 .
1.2.
. 3 .
. 87
88
87
87
Death
Ragn. 'Death
7.2.88
23.7.8729.5.87
Electoralrevision.
rolls under
Election to be held-withAssembly election.
Electoral rolls undarrevision^Election petition pending.However electoral rolls areunder revision..
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Legislative Councils
I.Bihar • 34 '.All the . fol louing 34 saatsto ba f i l l e d from local
authori t ies' 'const i tuenciesars vacant, f
PatnaL.A.Nalanda L.A.Gaya L.A,Aurangabad L.A.Nauada L.A.Bhojpur L.A.Rohtas L.A.Saran L.A.Siuan L.A.Gopal Ganj L.A.Uest Champaran L.A.East Champaran L.A.Fiuzaf farpur L.A.Vaishali L.A.Sitamarhi L.A.Darbhanga L.A.Hadhubani L.A.Samastipur L.A.Flonghyr L.A.Begusarai-cum-Khagaria L.A.Bhacalpur L.A.Purnea L.A.Katihar L.A.Santhal(2 seats)Hazaribagh L.A.Gir id ih L.A.Pa la ma u L.A.Ranchi L.A.(2 seats)Dhanhad L.A.Singhbhum L.A.(2Nadhe.pura L.A.
Retired
L.A.
11 membersretired on6.4.78.membersretired31.5.80
11
Biennial electionsto be hold only afterlocal bodiesare reconstituted. '
onand
12 membersret i red on6.5.82.
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1 2 _
2,Karnataka 21
3.Maharashtra 2
( All the 21 seats to be Retiredfi l led from localauthori t ies ' constituenciesare vacant.)Bidar B..A.Gulbarga L.A.Bijapur L.A.Ftelgaum L.fi.(2 seats)Uttara-Kannada L.A.ADharuad L.A. (2 seats)Raichur L.A. • •'Bellary L.A.Chitradurga L.A,Shimoga L.A.Dakshina-Kannada L.A.Chickmagalur L.A.Hassan L.A.Tumkur L.A,nandya L.A.Bangalore L.A,K o l a r L . A .Kadagu L .A .Flysore L.A.Aursngabad-cum-3alna L.A, RetiredThana. L.A. Retired
(Both th8 seats to befi l led from localauthorities.)
7 membersretired on1.7.78, 7-mernbersretired on14.5.80 and7 rrembersretired on11,6.82..
7.7,825.12.86
Certain local bodiesyet to be constituted,the Commission hasdecided to holdelection only afterall local bodies areconstituted.
The programme to holdthe election has notyet been fixed.
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J ; 2 3 4 5 6 7 _
4.Uttar Pradesh 39 (All the 39 seats to Retired 26 members retired - ^const i tut ion
authorit ies^nsTituancies on 5.5.80 and 13 of local bodiesare vacant.) „ members retired awaited",'
on 5.5.82.Tehri Garhual L;A.GarhUal L.A. ' , < •Kumaon L.A.Moradabad-Bijnor L.A.Rampur-Darei l ley L.A. .Badaun L.A.Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur L.A.Hordoi L.A.Kheri L.A. . •Sitspur L.A«Lucknou—LJnnao L.A. ,Rae Bareli L.A. . / .Pratapgarh L.A. . •Sultanpur L.A. •Bara Banki L.A,Gonda L.A. -* • .Faizabod L.A. • •Basti L.A.Gorakhpur L.A. ' • .Deoria L.A.Azamgarh L.A. . • •Bal l ia L.A.Ghazipur- L.A.'Daunpur L.A, . . . ' , .Uaranasi L.A.Flirzapur L.A,Allahabsd L.A.Banda-Hamirpur L.A.Dhansi-Dalaun-Lalitpur L.A.Kanpur-Fatehpur L.A.Etauah-Farrukhabad L.A.Agra L.A.
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T." '572. 4.
RstiredUt tar Prad83h(Contd.) Mathura-Etaua• . Mainpuri L.A.(2 sea ts )
Aligarh L. A.Bulandshahr L.A,Meerut-Ghaziabad L.A.Cluzaffarnagar L.A.Saharanpur L.A.
5, Dammu & Kashmir
CASUAL VACANCIES;
1 .
2 .
1 .
2 .
3-.
Bihar
Karnataka
Assam
Bihar
Gujarat
6
1
1
1
3
\
2 By Kashmir Pa'nchayat2 By Damrnu Panchayat1 3ammu L.A.1 Kashmir L.A.
By members
By members
Death
Doa th
LEGISLATIVE I
22-Salmara(South)
70-Sonbarsa
295-Chaibassa(ST)
324-Hussainabad
41-Naliya
Electiondeclaredvoid.
Death
ElectiondeclaredOo&th
Death
28.10.8722.10.8720.11.87 -23.11.87 - ,
25.1.88 29.-3.88
13.11.87 28.3.38
ASSEMBLIES
15.12.87 -
17.2.88 - )
)9.12.87
void.13.2.88
1..1.88
Reconstitufcion oflocal bodies awaited.
CEO has been requested to sandprogramme for summary revision ofelectoral rolls.
Electoral rolls undar revision.
1 .
4 .
5 .
6 .
7 .
8 .
Madhya Pradash
Punjab(
Ra jasthan
Tamil Nadu
Tripura
2 .
4
3
1
1
3.
9-Gohad(SC)
16-Lashkar East
274-Indore-V
104~Kharsia
12-8ea331-Dallandhur
Central63-Samrala
25-Khetri
- •——Assembly
51-Fetikroy
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4.
Death
Death
Regn.
Regn.
DeathDaath
Death
Death
dissolved on
Electioncountermanded.
"57 "
18.7.87
3.6.87 . -
25.2.87
22.2.88
28.4.86 - ]2.5.86 - ;
15.3.87 - :
22.5.87
30.1.1988i
"67 T 77 *
Electoral rolls underrevision. , .
Election petition pending.
Electoral rolls underrevision.
- I t has been4< cided not1 to hold byo-election nou
• in vieu of prevailing lauand order s/tuation in theState.'
' Electoral rolls underrevision.
-
contd.. . . .
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1. 2. 3. 4. . 5. 7.
9. Uttar Pradesh 2
10.Uest Bengal
11. Delhi 1(MetropolitanCouncil).
12. Pondicherry 1
133-Tanda403-Chaprauli
10-Kumargram258-Barabani
Nagar
25-Narauy GrandAdles.
DeathDeath
DeathDoath
Death
Death
13.124.1
4.1214.1
30.7
9.11
.870.87
.872.87
.87
.87
Final publication of'rolls on 7.3.1988.
. . _ _ . . . . . . „ . _ _ _ „ . . ' " " • 6 7 " . . . . - . . . . . . . , . _
STATEKENT SHOUING DETAILS OF ELECTIONS DECLARED VOIDBY THE HIGH COURTS AND WHERE" THE". ORDERS 'HAVE BEEN'5TftYED B_Y""5UPREP1E COURT.
S . N o . & Name o f C o n s t i t u e n c y Cause Date o f Remarks_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ v a c a n c y _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
1 2 3_ _ 4 ' _ •• . '5
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES
A.NDHR.A PRADESH1 . 2 5 6 - D a g t i a l Election declarod void. 10.6.86 Supreme Court granted
stay against High Court's, order on 30.6.G6i
MAHARASHTRA2. 151-Armorio(ST) Election dsclarsd void. 30.11.85 Supreme Court granted stay
against High Court's order
MAOHYA PRADESH ' ° P 3 0 « 1 1 « « 5 -
3 . 14-Lah'af-' : : Death 17.2.86 Stay granted bySupreme Court.
contd. • • •
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PUK3AB4.23-Taran Taran5.35-Nakodar6.54-Raikot7.77-Nabha8.88-Sunam9.89-Lehra
10.102-Panjgrain (SC)(11.103-Kot Kapura12.106-Gidderbaha13.110-Pakka Kalan(SC)1^-117-Sardulgarh
15.56-Uila Raipur16.G9~Kharar17.61-Pa yal18.75-Samana19.7 2-Ghanaur20. M2-Natharu(SC)21.79-Sirhind22.20-Ajnala23.74-Shutranan(SC)24.64-Khanna(SC)25.66-Anandpur SahabRAJASTHAN26<,E0-Karouli
27.183-3odhpur
Disqualified
Disqualified
ttt
Electionvoid
Eloctionvoid
declared
declared
22.
18.
10
2.
.86
87
2.5.1987 ,
4.5.1987 ,
Platter psndirig in SuprsniB Court
Natter pending in Supreme Court.
cuntd.. . . •
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1
2 8 .
2 9 .
30
31
OYFAfT Ff?flD£3M310-Chhibramua
3 09-Umarda
. 251-PIarianu
. 345-Sakit
PONDICHERRY
33. 6-0rlsamp8th. 10-Embalam(SC)
3 •
Electionvoid.
Electionvoid.Elsctionvoid.Electionvoid.
ExpelledExpelled
declared
declared
declared
declared
4
12.8.
14.5.
21.1.13.1.
18.1213.12
87
87
8787
.86 !.86 : !
" "" 5
Appoal f i l s di n the Supreme Court .
^do- .
t Appeal f i l l e d i nSupreme Court.Stayordered by Cour t .
Stay granted byHigh Court
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
34. 2 seats fromBombay localauthorit ies.
Elections declaredvoid.
24.10.85 Appeal filed inSupreme Courts
* # • * # # * *
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EFN- VI
REGISTRATIDiJ OF "BHARTIYM REPUBLICAN PAKSH" A3 ANUNRECOGNISED POLITICAL PHRTY IN RESPECT OF THE
"Bhartiya Republican Paksh" uhich contested
the General Election to the Maharashtra Legislative
Assembly held in 1985 applied for registration
as a political party. On being satisfied about
the genuineness of the request and the electoral
support it enjoyed(it had secured 279243 out of
21334742 valid votes)Election Commission of India*
Vide its Notification dated 22.2.1988 registered
"Bhartiya RbpuDlican Paksh" association under
paragraph 3 of ths Election symbols (Reservation
and Allotment) order, 1968 as an unrecognised
Political Party in respsct of the State of
Maharashtra under the name and Stylo of "Bhartiya
Republican Paksh."
Commission's Notification is reproduced in
full in the following pages.
• ' • • . . . - . , • . . - 7 1 - * • • • • • • • •
, . . ' ' • • • ' • • " . . • ' • ' • ' I ' " '
.'* TO BE HJELI3ISD III '• ELECHOK COMMISSION OF INDIA.THE GAZETTE OF IHDI^. . - : • • . • .
3 r • " ; ' : - v ; . •- . NEW DELHI. 11OOO1.' Dated the 22nd F e b r u a r y
.; .. .. _ ' Phalguna 3 , 1909cS)
• Whereas the Election Commission of India has considered
the appl icat ion of "Bharatiya Republican Paksh"for r e g i s t r a t i o n
of tha t associat ion under paragraph 3 of the Elect ion Symbols
(Reservation and &Llotment)Order, 1968, as a p o l i t i c a l par ty , a nd
the documents produced in support of t'ho prayer contained i n the
said applicat ion and has decided to r e g i s t e r . t h a t associat ion
under the name and style of "Bharatiya Republican Paksh" as an
un-recognised . p o l i t i c a l party in respect of the State of
..Maharashtra under the provisions of paragraph 3 of the said Symbols
Order, subject to . the following conditions:-. ,-•
( i ) ^he' party.shall communicate to_thjijJoEHnisa.ierL_wit.houtdelay, any change in its-name. Head Office. Office
\ • . iearers and the i r address, p o l i t i c a l p r inc ip les ,' " pol ic ies , a ims and objectives and any change in any
ether mater ia l matters;•• ( i i ) The party sha l l int imate the Commission immediately
whenever any amendments are issued" to party cons t i - ,tution alongviiih the-rele^ant-doorai£?rrfs lika_±tto
•notice .for the meeting, minutes of the -meetingyhore tha" amendments'have teen carriedj
' / • • • •
(lli>- 2to carty shall'maintain all tha records like _. ; .-,- .. rainutcs books, accounts books, member.s-rSh P registers,
•receipt bocks etc. prorerlj",
. (iv) . 5he-«a±d-Tfleords shall bo open for inspection at any- tiimc- by the a.v^}xx^so^^osx^^^rtsi^^>^l^i^t^Q^
• • _ "ComiBission; /-nd - x . . •
(y) ?ha-rogistration granted shall be reviewed by, ^ iho Commission- from time to time.
/'y' Confcd*•»•
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Now, therefore,, in pursuance of the provisions
contained in clause .(a)-.of .sub^paragraph (1) and-sub-paragraph (2)
of paragraph 17 of the Election. Symbols(Reservation and-Allotment)
Order), 1968, the El.oction_.Ouainission-of. India hereby makes the fo l l -
owing amendments in i ts ' notification No. 5^/2^-1, dated the 13th
November, 19&> published-in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary,
Par t - I I , Section 3 ( i i i ) , dated the 16th;.'November, I98I4-, and as '
amended from time to t ine, nanely - ' ••;:-"'.'.
• ' . . ... In Table 3 appended to the ••said notification,
under columns 1 and 2, after the entry "aQAll Party Hill Leaders''
Conference'(Araison Marak GTOUD) . .« . . .» Meghalaya" the entry- »
1121.Bharatiya Republican Paksh Maharashtra" shall be
a d d e d . . .'. . • '
Sd/-
/ s
Thti term of r^nhsl-ya L^ni s i? . t ive Ase.etfb.1y cons u i t t : t,~d
i n ';'>23 was cue to expire en 7 t h f'iarch, 1 ~ GD» Th'srcf C;X'B}
& r ' n i " : a l e l e c t i o n was r?ou i rcd to bo ;-;eJd bo r n n o t i t u t e
a r e ; I c n i s l n t.i VD i'-sscsbly before th=2 ^ x p i r b t i o n ;:f i t ; !
tDrnu "'
DEl.l. "TTA'f IC'.i CT ^Cs/STs C';;:::TITUEf'Cir3
55 out cf ^0 soats uor? r o s a i v c ! fCi; ST? : : r t o r
rodo ":i rr,i'..': t i -r; cf c vr.st i'cuGncies i n rnri?su3nce of
Cons t i t u t i on (5i>!:h ArnRndr-.yot) Act,13S7.
kr, a prfilu-jp. to the holdi no of general 9 lect ion,
•ths .-^ctu:-ai r o l l s were rsv i 'nd intnn:- iv"Iy u i t h
rafeir^rv.^ to 1.1,1207 as the :;ue l i f y inr Jsts0 Thr
Ccrr:'.'.l«»icii i n i t i a l l y approver! a procr£r;ir.;n v i t h draf t
puMict^ icn on 1.G,1£'F7 onri f i r s l pi;b licr. ti.cn on
?"j.6,£/, I ii« prc.Tjr r?.""-? of intsrisiv/a rev is ic r yas hououer
:x-sc!'5d'j:sri fol io- j ing a request from th9 Chief Electors 1
Df f 5 c i r j < -sririalti yd , The rsviseri pror-rar'.^e as sur.rasteG
by f.h.v-f Fillet jj.-r.l Officer o-nd £; ppr rjvod by the Commission
•>} Hri(j •?.•.•> i-o i.oiise enumeration 1n,?»t'V t c 1 fi * 3. J
i f ) Dr--f:. p' jbl ic."t ici- i e;f E i n c t n r a l 1,6,87
i i i ) l f ;nt n-;te for f i l i n g of c l a ims / :<0.5.f7
-.— 7 4 ••
v) Printinc of an--n<jnv: nta/supismr:nfcS - 15.7,87& final"publication of ro ' I s ,
Qua to unusual rains and diff icult ce-r.rr.-jnicafcion,
the Chief Electoral Of f icer,rtegiv-:• :,A rsquaated for
extending last da is for filing of rlaims/objections upto
15,7.1987 and that of final publication to 31,7.1987.
The Commission ultimately extended the period fcr claims
and objections upto 14t8.87 as uas roqussted by the
Chief electoral Officer. One to lau and order situation
and imposition of curfsu in Uost Garo Hi list d i s t r i c t , tha
data-for the final publication o^ ths electoral rolls in
r8Spsct of cors tituencies *»cs, 45 to 60 uss further
exts.nc'gd upto 18.9,1 SB?. Tote 1 num\jf3r of electors uas
806367 after final publication o? r o l l s . Cut of these
4,03,593 uere -en and 402794 tiers ucrssn s l sc tors .
The Chief Eiocticn Cvr-.Lssicr.P.r held a treating on
26,11.1987 uith the Chief Elect-ral Of fice-r,Chief Secretary
and Inspector Garcr^.l of Folica cf. r'eghalsy- to assess tho
State of preparedness .fcr ths genra i eiscticn and also to
identity the likely problems and situations which pay
arise. Shri R. Vasudsusn, Dcint SgcrGt.ary,;:inist~y of
Home Affairs and Senior Officers cr th» Car-missi on usro
r. Iso pr^ncnt in the nc-tirg.
After consultation ui th the Chi-f Elootc:nl Officer,
ths Ccinnis •• ion Pixod :;';••,.; :~ullouir.g prccr£nin,s for holdincj the
r.snoral e lec t ion;
i) Issuo of riotificcticn s2.1,3:' (Saturday)
5.i) Las t dato for nvkipg -,n;ri:v;: lJ rr.;. t 3.1 « SB ( S J t u r da y)
i . i i ) O s t e . o.' s c r u t i s w cF f-.r;.,-.,: ';i r: -.? : 1';. 1 .BC (Moot^y)
i v ) Last dtto cf I ' i l t . i-^^wal of : 1"- / ; . 136 (•Jpslrcf.dsy)csnd j.c'ai.ur M>k
v) Oaus .cf p o l l ' : 2. 2.SS(TiJG:-Jay}
v i ) Date of c o ^ p l n l i c n r,? pall : 5. 2,SC ( F r i d a y )(sxtsnc'Gd to 'IZ.l.vi)
Kcurc cf po l l ue re 8,'JV1 -'.,:% x.o 4 , 0 0 P t r u
A t o t a l of 11310 no] l i ne s t a t i o n ^ f a r o s•-,'<, vp f i r
t h e p o l l .
over t; I s i Ci un :-:nni2 b "rc 'or inn sr~f.f of tho S t a t e s uas
psoding f s r s o t t i e r r s n t in ti-o Hint;- 'try of Hon-c.'ATf'.-irs. The
Govi . of f^ghs :'':\-3 hns s ? t ...p f nur p ^ l l i p q s v,a v. .1 c no
§ t f l l l a n r ' - d l r ? . Lsngb 'h ,Ko-ph rbu I I aisr HuKar-ar:. a t t he
e l e c t i o n s held in 197B, 1 >HJ, 11-??. nrul 1SB5 in tho
dispucf=d sr-:2fi, For tbc ^ e n ? : c i ELvr'Sicp.", i n 1QG3,Gavt.
cf Asmara ob Sc>ci;sd to th^ E s t t i n g up cf p c l j i ' i r s L a t i o n s
in t '^oso 2TEV.E c.r.t-i rcc;u?5tsd t!"i£ C o r i r i s s i c r t o teko s t e p s
t o p r e v e n t r",u;_.h3 ]aya fron s e t t i n g uo pol3.ir.c? s t a t i o n s in
Ass::p, Hcnirj f'iinis b'"Tr. of Assam crid fee ta jay."; he ld a
nioct ln" nn 'i3,'l«0o a t Dinpijr t o Jicci:PO cbou t t!)": c ? t t ? p n
up of po l l in r ; f i t a t i c n s in rfisput^d oro;-ri, Chi ' :f E j ^ c t o r c ] ,
Of f i c s r , f-iaghs ".aya rGc.Li^stcd t he Co;r.:,-i srr .cn t n c.iyc
a p p r o v a l for s e t t i n g up r;f s^von p o l ' I p q s t r t i n n s i n the
abo\'~ msnticin^d fcur cii;; Luted t r c a s t o ;.-iir.L--in s t a t e s
quo a n t e , The Car.rdssxan UES no!- i n favour nf o i v i n q
a p p r r v c i LT1: :<3S conr.ui r a n r n of t h e Covt . of Asran uas
chit'iV-.VG, fl'v: GO'J'J* t)f ' , ' - :^? i-j-jiiec-tcci Cc;' r i.L-5j.:,T. .'ici'; t o
q ivo dt.::;..v:. 1 for n s t t i r : - u'1 t h v i s r : tv rn :; J ] .*:'r •;; ^t-c ci^nr.;
- 7 6 -
proposed to bs s°t ur, in /cur vill ' . cpc nc- ! ^ Ly s Plll.-nc -ato,
Lang hi b, Karr.pha tiuli •" nd f!uka ,n- L i in A -J •-:ernh ly Ccns t i ivr. nciss
K03. 11 and 34 ami uichd:-:\' •• r.;-.?:av<'--1 already conv^yad for
sotting up of polling stati:.v3 No.28 of ^'ss'arbly "ffo'ristituancy
Wo.2, polling stations Ncs, 1 and 10 of assji-^ly
constituency Nc,4 and polling stations Nos, S and IS of
assembly constituency No.5. Fanning approval of tha
pollinp s ta t ions , polling parties could neb bs sent to
thesg polling s ta t ions . After pursuasicn, tha Assam Gout,
assured to provide a i l .?.ssistanca tc tha Gavfc. of
Msghalaya for shifting of oolling s ta t ions . On 1,2.08,
the Commission informed cha Tlsghalaya Gcvt. thst In vieu
of ths optimism expressed about peaceful poll and
cooperation of the Asaim Govt., the Cumriissicn approved
despatch of polling par t iss and taking steps fcr setting
up disputed polling stations at t'ra filacss indicated
oarl ier or at sens cthcor naar-ly suitable pis ens subject
to the conditions that before actual ly-sot t ing up tha
polling stations and nsrmitline palling, prcp-jr l iasicn
should hs established uith the concerned local Assam
officials and in fc ha event of any apprs' •.gr.sic-i cf breech
of peace, tha polling 3tati-:n ccn-.oxr.fjd shcjirj rot bo set
up and the Commission's instructiens sK-;..;.;.],- r---> so'jqht,
The issue could be sorted cut in rasn-'ct of two
disputed nulling stat iens cf 1 i-jivanrj (ST) ccrst". t'.'3ncy
and also in r^spract of 2 of the? fj.v- d'.svAit-:iC polling
stat ions of ji'i-rionqstoin (r>T) ass-vihly cens t"-'":uercy.
~ 7V -
In - i'"."5 regaining 3 viz«;ios«5 arid* 6: a t : teku&izi-•£ nri We,7
s i •:-rcb.lh pel-lino, stati^nr; could r.at ba set up in .
vieu of z.-.u-t"KoTIT. i on of breach of peaca*
Fel l I-'BS ndj-rjurnrc.1 a t the abovs mentiensd
l i l p n i. t a t i en s due to brorch of p=2 CG and
occu:v--tl?.:ri of th-1 building where the polling steti.cn?
ware i cca t sd by the Assam Pclica. Data of adjourned
poll hi3 y2i to -o ccmplstcd, Ths r e su l t cf
24-!.' •:. ngst:: in (ST) as&en-biy constituancy hs.s been •i.ith h'lld
Dats .:f completion n a s bssn tixtendgd to 31,. 5eB8.B
cj jsr jfLj^: • • . •
The Co-r.I^sion sppcintcd 5 usr t ra 1 G out* officers
and 19 s t a t e govi. officers ?.s. observers to cvei-ses
tb'i csl.l. and counting rp uot-s8
There uzurv. no sor.5ci.io complaints ofchar t'.an the
oL.Cv;: r.rnt ' .r.HU t;££es where r s -po l l had been ordyre't,',.
iJn tir"=r •.•'.-•cipj th? 2lsntir;n ufs conductsd in a
Irs n i l , 2V'I c^ndi cists contested the e lec t ion .
Party u i ' e oreak up of tns ccnte;" t^uto r;nci c l a c t s d
cand ida tes i s given bole 1 ; ; -
S*No. Party He, of c c n t o o t i r g No. cf o lnc t sdc a n :1 i c1 a t p l J ^
I1 """ 2
1.Indian Nat ional ,Congress
2,Conr:uniit Party cf India
3.A11 Party H i l l Leadersc onfersnes(A)
4 , H i l l State Peoples'Democratic Party
5.Publ ic DemandsImplementa t i on Con veivti on
6 . H i l l Psopla Union
7.Independents
Totul
Ecual i tv of ,/ot.s - nc
60
9
18
31
15
55
83 .
271
22
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5
2
19
9
u of l o t s .
In 54-Khsrapara asssin'^ly c o n s t i t u e n c y ,
Shr i Roster H. Sangma, canctide ta SDonsored by the I,f-!.C.
and Shr i Chamber l ino !:'?.rj k5 Int 'spendent secured 2551 votes
2Eciia According to n e c t i 'n 5C.' of the " Rep rc se r tE t i en cf
th=? Psopla 1951, in th.3 --v/snt cf an o c u s l i t y cf v c t s s , tha
Hsturping Officer s h a l l c^cic'G tha cutcotr.e by a dr£u of- '
l o t s . The nar,;e3 cf the 2 c?-rv-idci c3S u\-:rrt noted dnun on
s e p a r a t e p ieces of paper ui-dc'" Mere ".Hit i n t o a b a l l o t box.
Ono piece cf nsper L-as i^k^n ci.:i :-'t' ;;^;i'.'•:• in a ft 'i i t c^nLsinad
nans of 3h.Ch3mharline fer^k ar\rJ thcr fore he -J:.^ rioclcrad
o l o c t c d . This uas porhap^ ?c.v the f i r s t t•'r.v; i,-. the h i s t o r y
of ' Indian E lec t ions tS'st a candidate? '.',cz coz!:-. red r.-l-jctcd
by drau of l o t s un :!er s,~cticn 63 of the n-:-;T3 n K l v n of
the PecoiG Acc ,1"51 .
* Thg p o l l in 3-W:::ru-!Stcir. c-.-.^.^-ly : o - t i t u - c n e y hes ys tto bo comnlat-id »
sr-ii •- fvov -asv:.--.;.--ly m ^ t i t u t c d GO t l v t ^ a t o , A't thu ti;oa
of •.'•;•':• cons t i t u t ion of civ; nou assembly resul t frcrn
3':-t. .•-.r,^t.uirs(->T} constituency h&d not bac>n recaivsd,
In V-i? consti tuency the pull could not be con'plet-ed
on t'.-..? tra-ce . ri;.-«d under clause (h) of saction 30
cf t: :,- riopr?-"-DPbr.ti::TI of the Pccpls,1951 and the date
oF Co.-picbli:n v".c extended .unriar the provisions of
sect1 v-: 153 of the s&id Act-. Tho sc;at from that
censt:. :u?ncy '-'as shcun.ss vacant in the notificatlun.-
A Co :nc i l of F.inlstsrs i-,saded by Sh, P.A.Sang ^a
of inc. sssur- 'd office en 6,2,1933 •
. r i r c t i;i&ei,in:; of cha neu Sissmblyuas h^ld on
22.2....&E. The tsrci of the assamhly u i l l ther^fcra,
ex tone1' up to 21,2, 1593.
. ; ^ s Aerabiy ,.conJUiu^Pc! In '(383 uso duB to expire on 8.2.15S8**
ftccor J I - r Iyf E. ^anpral s l sc t inn uas requivad tc bft hold
to c c r ) : i t u t 9 a nsu Lenislativs Asss.nblv hfifors thst- dctc»R E i' J s 11' r r ^ i.r:: r ?. n A L 7, ? L L :
Th? - l e c t o r ^ ! ro l l s uers revised intensively with
1 .1 «'.'".": 7 - ^ •-'.'- ;;u::JiryinG :.;c Ls as; par fo.licuir;g pr cq
( i ) H--.--:£• to h'-.u^o ennnsr^tinn: 3.2.G7 to 6»3.07
(' I) f\- r-r'au;: ..;-> cf thei.,£".'.•.-• crip.t 'v)v' dr i f t 1S.J.87
,-.lit •. , V - ' i •" -i.
(iu)o.cjft publicat ion cf r a i l s : "i (:,••';,17
(v) Lr.«t ca ts "or rcv;pipt of
claims and object ions; 25,5,07
(vi) Disposal of el-'-ii'G/'cb jncuiens : tl.S.C?
( v i i ) F i n a l publicat ion of r o l l s : 30.5,87
Last data for f i l ing claims end objar.tir.n.s had bscn
previously fixed as '565S«37, Sh.Neresh Chandra 8h<- t t^chnr j ee ,
President Tripura Pradesh Ccngr?ss(l) committee met
Chief Llecfcicn Cornnissioner on 12*5.E7 in connection
u i th rev is ion of r o l l s . Ho reprssontcd that due to
prsva i l ing cop.diticna in ths s i t ; t e , tho party could net
pa r t i c ipa t a in tho rnyi-Gion of r a i l s , Acccrding to the
drafb s l a c t o r a i r o l l s , bhsrs uas an abncr rs l incrscso in
thu rvanber of e lec to rs ard the party ua-~ ^ctivQly
preparing a large nuinbar of objections tc be f i led in-fora
the Electors 1 Ragi.^ t r a t i c n Officer concerned. For ';h:it
purpose, he rsquastsd the Co: rnis'Bit.'n to extend the time
for f i l i ng claims and objection^. Subsequently,, tlva 3=mQ
uas extended from 16.5.87 to 21.5.87,
The o lac toca l rcilis? cf a i l tiia 50 asssirbly cons t i tuencies
•uers f i n a l l y published on 30.6.':^G7, as scheduled. After
tha f ina l publ ica t ion of r o l l s , ch^re unm a fc-tci nernbor
Qf 1,34,0901 e l e c t o r s , out of -jhom -i,83,279 UBTB r.-ien and
6,57,622 ware unman e loc tc rs ' ,
Aftsr consui ta tJcn wi th ' the Chief El-ctM~:.l ^ loc to ra l
Officer, thq ComriEsi<-n fixed the sars prcci.'"';'",e us UJ.!T fj'.xod
for General Election to r.onha ?.Eya i..onio!\ uiv.--> .^3^; . ; ; ly.
Hours of pol l uers h\n,vw-:r fixed fr^u 7,5H 'l.fl,, to ' \ S Q p,<v<.
A :. r, i.j.?. of •i;;--';D pojling stations uere eet. up for
the pcl;L, Tn=rs 'J3rs _CiJ c^^sinbly ccr.atituenciss
co'ir.rir-: =: thrvE iJ.isi-icis :~l»:cs t Trlcura,South Tripurs
and ^or-.h Tripurfc.
cru!.7":: ""i'''':!^p//.;-: "'.'R^Ef; POLLS
Poi : in 51-rctikrcy Bssernbly constituency uas
cc:jh';.Gr nsiu-JEiS o:.r& to riaath of a contsctir-g candidate.
Tuo?-:ty rsr.-lrr officers of the State Gout, usr?
cp;x:int•--; as r^ervera to overses the poll and counting
of vnte-.. In addition to those ^tata u oyt« officers^
6 ss'ii 'T c'ricriir" nf the Central Govt, uors ciso
appcintst.' ;>•?. Cors^ission* s observers* -
In 3;ilj 218 c.anoi'-Jates cuntBS ted th3 election Party uise
brf?ak~up; of the conteataints end elected candidates is
givsn b-r Toys
S.Na. -Pcrty ?M'O. of contesting No. of Elected.
1e C*£.r% 55 26
2,, L^C. . 46 24
3 . 2^t~,s.t-i 10 -
4. Fv "3 . P. 10
5* C t tP.I 1
G. 1 , : , 3 ^ , 14 7
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A new assembly './as const i tu tsd on 5,2,1936,, F i r s t
snooting of the nsu assofrbly h? Id en 29*2.88,, The fcsrm
of tha assembly u i l l tharofora, axtand upto 28,2.9?, A
Council of Ministers hnadsd by Shri Sudhir Ranjan
Rajumdax- assumed affica en 5,2*1968
A t o t a l of 69 complaints uarc rscaived. Uh^revsr
nacossary, thsso conplaints were foruardad tc Chief
Sscratary/Chief Electoral Officer for onquiry. SOITPG
of the more sei-ious complaints ars enunerahed
here inaf te r ,
('0 There upra soma a i l ega t iens against 3ii.fi.C,Sinha,
Sub-Oiuisional Officar (. Sadar , end Raturr.ifig
Officer for Assembly Cons t i buc-ncies Ncs,?-12 regarding
manipulation of postal ba l lo t papers, Con-isaion £3kBd
the Chief Electoral Officur ia conduct an enquiry into
th3 a l l s g a t i a n a , Shri K.r.< Lai,Financis 1 Advisor,
Ministry of Hcjj-.e AffairSj Gc/ernmant of India and
Commission's Cbsorunr for assembly ccnstituRPcies "ns s
1-14 uas a l so asked to ho ass re La ted u.lhh t.h<;: enquiry.
After considering a l l aspects of ths matter, i-hisf r i^
Officer recan-andsd hhat Shri Xinha nay ho r,eplacid by
Shri Pravin 3r ivaatav, Qis Lrict Mr.gisti-'-to ~>nd Colisctor ,
West Tripura, In ordar to-cros te con'\v:!enr.?3 ;.in tha
minds cf the conl-.ostinr; candi'';.has end rrjjl ' : lc,;l p'r-tios'
Comnission approved fchs abov/cj r;r"pocal :r? i,i:u Chi ;f
Ellscharal Gfficar^ ThBreaf;;~- Ehri S , R.. "•>" sre-r-, Chi^i"
Eloctoral Cf f j.cev, Tr ipura ann SihJ ' . i ' .UI , j::scrva:c
ccnckictod -a do c."i led :•'"<' ;:'.:v <~rvJ cCi--1; to tha conclusion
.th3i;-Vrifi prcbluci h-'Ti - , 1 . : :T : '.. o.~ r •„::. s c;f the unusual
procf.d'jic- ndo-.ttid by !;•'=:• .\?turnirq ; fTicor for receipt
..of envelopes nontr. inino p c. s t a I bailor, papers tkreuqh the
s t s s l trunk. I t appears th^t the Hcto^iing Officer
din t-.c'z kesp. ^Giidida tea <'--nd the po l i t i ca l part ies
fully informed of fchs Dr:.cr:djrG» The Dis t r ic t
flag ic tratG h-o also stated Dft~r preliminary inouiry
that \-Q could net find «ny puidsnea cf tampering by
fct"i3 nK'turniriG DFficsr,
ThH Chi«r Elsctc;rai Cfficc-r, Tripura s l sc foruarded
CIDIPS of rspre?'2r.tc. t: cr:s oivap by E officers rccuestinQ
to s?xcrr.pt f/'nam fron ra-.;ntir.g work so th"-t Lliey may not bo
treated in the same Kni'sr l iks Shri Sinhs. The Chief
El^ctdrnl Dffj.cer' infHrr-?r! tho officers cnncsrnsd
that uhansvnr thcrs uas 3me ccnipiiiinto ac.aj.nst an
officer i t uas a gcns.s i practice to shi f t him so as to
infuse confic'nncc in the penerr-1 public and this uas
not e reflect ion upon tnQ gu i l t of the officer concerned.
After taking into account the circ-jnis-tPnc^s of the case,
Commies ion ordered counting of ths postal bal lo t papers
for ths assembly consti tuencies f!os.7--'i 2« Results of
thu clsct ion from a l l the copsti tuenciss 'j^ra also
dec lared,
(j>) Mnhfirani Bibhu Kumeri Devi objected to the
TripLirn Gov3in.Tir.nt l^yinn foundr. tion steps for Upjati
L>anRkriti Bikash Bhabsr., on 30,12,67, uhic'n she
c'-^rt z tor i s;:d as ris-us-:; nf t'rn tdr-ird r; tr^ 1 i v° Ttchrnnrv
v £ 4 r
hy tho Loft'Front Gav^rnnrnt to rain undue advontnce,
The Chiof £ lac t err. I Of f icor ,Tripura uas asksd to oiva
the facts cf tho cr.se, Ti-.a Ma re,-? O'jp- r tiv.nnt af Tri'-'urq
Government ii?-d intimated that the decision to construct
Upcjcti Sanskr i t ! Bikash Ipcv/cn a t Are-r'cala on sui table
land uas taken by the Govfirnntrnt of India in blia tncntii
of February,1937. Accordingly, a plot of iota land had
been purchased a t Kris hnar.sgs r ,Acerta la , by the Govt*
The data for laying, foundation stenra of thn Centra en
the 30th December,37 uas drac.triad en the I3!:h DGCnr-bsr,S7
i . e . before the no': if i c a t i an of ths assembly e lac t icn .
(3) Complaints tisrs rsc~ivad from Shri N5.rpan
Chokraborty, Chief Tiinistcr of Tripura and Sh.Bhanu Ghosh
Convenor cf Tripura Lsft Front Com i t t s e and Spcrctary
C .P . I . ( ^ ) , Tripirro that Cenr;rflS3(l) uas planrinn to hold
loan and disburss c3sh on ths strength of bulk
appl icat ions which uore recorr.rcndad by iaac!c>r3 of that
pnrty and i t s cand.U^-ceS. Seme of these a p:^iicaticn1?
had b?an submittsd to tho United Rank of In'iia on
31.'12«19G7. This 1:2s clocrly a corrupt p rac t i c s . ^ Such
uisbursetre'nt u i l l clco cc-rra jnc'^r ths purvion of th'a
Supretr.e Court 's judrar-ent ip. G'rsoit-rri vorsus Oalsing!"!
(Civi l Appeal No,'; iij2(i:Ct) of 19C?fu??:;.f ? !;'u- Jean ncla organised/
ij.kely to rosul t in uiries nrca r] "Inianco t-?.rebv-af footing
the peaceful conduct c? oia 'ctiens, Conniinoi on uso
thsrafore r.ecuBStori be i r t s rvsno tnd otop ths concernsd
au thor i t i e s from re" art In;- to .*:p,y specie 1 pro~j."£iir,"H ijndor
uhich' 32nk3 ir9rs r~cijirr;d t,c c-" y ic-nt? en th'1 basis
of applicn tion3 Gubnitt-K! thr .-:'.:pii p-ilitic:-. 1 p-'-tins t i l l
^l^ctJcfiS wero ovar .
Shri Shanu Ghosh aller-ic thv- ';• ; ; - : -~ID O" Tripura
cibc'jrvar! t o t a l b^non nn v,-;,'-" f'.-r 1'-.: hri" s in protes t
ar/:ir,st tho IM;,I . to hoJri lo^n a i ^ ;.n tho :^nw o^ •
Ct-fis:;-, Ci-eciit; O?livnry P r ^ r ^ - c , Shi .1 H-,;ci;-.ir f-Mnjcri
HajurndEr^Prc-idont Sr.ats (.oncrc-f.s :--nd ccnteGting car.riidr.ta
frcm Toi.;n BcTducli As3srr.':?Iy CcriEtitunncy aic-ne submitted •
50G0 ode! appl icat ion f-orr.G for loan enly r:-c;r, vcttrrs uf •
his ecr^otitusney on 31.1 ?..f7 in the prasr-p-R- of Chairman
U.S.I . I t uas a corrupt p rac t i ce , illcr;.ei f-rnd inpropsr
and v io la t ion of Reaerve 3nnk of India norn? and
guids l inas . This had baen deno uhi ls Gau1 a t i f'inh Court
has taken up a u r i t pe t i t i on through Shri Ghosh.President "
A.I.C.C* and othars for hearing on the 4th janusry,19G8»
Ho therefore sought Ccinr.isolcn13 interventior; t:; pxausnt
fcoking up of any such lean appl ica t ion t i l l f i r s t week
of February.
Commission f e l t that holding cf Jcsn rneJxs appsr.rs
to be apair 'st th3 provisions of cl"u2e--i./T of pjr-^crsph-l'Il
of the flcdaJ. Code of Conduct. Accordingly copies of
the Ict t t rr- were fnr'.iarded to the Gevernman':.-of India
in ths Hipictry of Finance,Dcpartmsnt cf Zcc;n6rcic Affairs
(Banking Division) for corrrrants in the matter . The
comments are s t i l l aua i t sd ,
^ 4 / On Z3 3anu-ary,3hri ilirf. err Chakrriborty sent a
l e t t e r to the Commission spying tha t a I'hols henjt of
Csntrol ["iini^tsrs wara undei taking or f i l i a l tours to
Tripuro in the midst of e lec t ion procsc? nnti prii.iar5.ly
u t i l i s i n g thnir o f f i c i a l v i s i t for sl-ndej-inr aprf rprcc-iding
ca
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nacds against t\v:> Left front ucvarnmer,-., This \:~-S
a uanton violat ion of the Nodal Coda. The Secretary
Tripura Stats Corrritt^a of the CPI (T") urcfee to tha
Corrri'.ss ion on 27.1.SO saying that Shri S j i ' , Panja,
Union PUnistei.- cf State foi- Information and Ercadcastinq
visi ted Kalscharra near S^ntirbazar in Sjut'n Tripuva
d is t r i c t '-hsroT.fi.'J, colloborators had attacksd an
isclated non t r i ba l IIGIJSQ cf CPI ([•".) supporter.
The I'dnistor h3d tr^ueliad in an O.il.G.C, halicqpter.
The State Government uas informed that he uas v is i t ing
the place on o f f i c i a l 'iuty. He spent only a fnu
minutes at this place, Ihueyar, he uent to Bagsra and
addressed a party meeting of INC. The Sscrotsry
CPl(.n) strongly objected to the Central ninist«;.*s
combining so called o f f i c i a l v is i ts ui th electioneering
i.'crki Cmioo of thnss letters usrs feruarend to the
Cab.tFi.ot SBcretary fax cop-,cnt3» Comronts are s t i l l
a!tinitf3d»
P:iZbZ REPORTS CM £!LCC7r:"::-3 ;-ND PCL1TICM.S Y S I L r . S o f F Q R i i L i ' ' CC'.]]•?"! i 1 U - J • ?.<•• !.. 1 t"'t.'^?
During ths month of February, 19F8, Press
repcrts/Ert:clas/oditorir.Is cri clscti^ns and
PuJltical Systems of for-iinn countries and othnr
mstfcsrs of int^rs-^t sp::e.3rod in the press. The
press- reports' : ape! art icles as are considered
t r be of spociel interest are boinc, reprcrfucsd
in full in the? rcllouino paces:«
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6,2.86 flinci'ustan Tines Reoardinq D3clsj;3tiancp f'lalaysian rulingparty as i l l s gal,
17n2.Br" Statesman Presidential elocticnin Cyprus,
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KUALA LUMPUR. Feb. 5 (UNI)— Malaysia has plunged 'n'.o politicaluncertain following a historic Hi:.;iiCourt judgment declarine the iu]inaUnited Malays National ".J-c:r,ii:iiii;p"an illegal society" and the kt. : Aprilelection for rtrty leadership a nulh'\.
In an unprecedented judgrrv;m, jus-tice Harun Hushim said the "clear andunambigiious" provisions of theSocieties Act mjde Mala .sia's largestpolitical party illegal, because it cor.-ciudea 30 branches that h;-id iio! beenapproved by the Registrar of societies,
Pnrne Minister Mahathir Moha-mad. who is al:e the president ofUMNO, said late isa night that he stillremains Prime Minister even throughthe High Court held UMNO to be anillecal Society.
Beniama. the national news agency,said quoting D; Mohamad mat theCourt decision will not affect the Gov-eminent administration.
Eleven UMNO dissidents hadpleaded with the High Cot;rt to annulthe polls on the grounds that the out-come was affected by UMNOsecretary-generai Sanusiiunid and thesecretaries of srs UMNO diyisions asdefendants, claiming that they knew ofthe existence of the unapproved bran-ches but did aoLhing.
justice Karun said he could notgrant the request of t!:e 1! rlniiitifisbecause U.MNO was an illtg.-.! vxie'yby value c.f having tS-.e unapprovedbfir.chss a! the time the polls weiebold.
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Me said the party supreme council.scheduled to meet on Feb. 13, woulddecide on the next course of action.
flic Iiis.h Court ruling endeci thelong iegal battle between the suppor-ters of L>r Mahathir Mohamad and for-mer iradc Ind'jjtr}' N^r.iiter YOI^KURaialeigri Hanizah for a fresh poll.
Later, in the first official reaction tothe ruling, Dr Mahathir tolJ a largelyattended news conference this morn-ing that the Bansan NosiomJ (the nil-ir-g front of which UMNO is a leadingpartner) still existed as also the Gov-cir.rncnt, adds p i I. What is material is;!><;; the Government still exists, hesaid.
It is a legal point, he quipped when anewsman Minted out th. t while Ban-san N.:iic:ial existed. I'MNO did not.
Dr N'.-.h,-;hir, locki'ij calm and te-la^ed. tcld reporters that his party hadmr.nv options but he would not spellthem out.
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Appealing to his portymen to re-main calm, he said the issue will beresolved in course of time. lie alsodismissed suggestions that he was nowan ex presic.r;: (of the patty).
The Barisan Nasion.il, the Premierpointed out. was not a pany but acoalition of parties consisting, besidesthe UMNO, of the Malaysian IndianCongress and the Malaysian ChineseAssociation, among others. "We havehad parties going out of the coalitionbut the coalition was not destroyed as aresult."
/.s far as the Goveirtrpon! is con-cerned, our nartymen continre to bemembers of Parliament and withmajority support we are capable ofccntirjiiing in government, DrMahaihir said.
Dr Mahathir also dismissed sugges-tions of po'kiL_i iiistabiuu as a resultof the ruling and said "I know manypeople would like to destroy the eco-nomy of this country by publishing re-poris of political instability.
In an oo'ious reference to the 11plaintiffs v-hose petition led to yester-day's court ruling, Dr Mahathir saidsome peof-ii in UMNO were out todestroy the pni ty. "What we are seeingtoday is the lesult of the ambitions ofsome jieople out to capture p-ower."
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NEW DELHI. February 26.
AGROUP of unidentified personstoday snatched away Ihe ballot
boxes and ballot papeis from ihnSupreme Court Bar Associationlibrary where lawyers were excerci'ir.j;the franchise to ascertain whether theapex court should continue A;ih thenine days old indefinite strike or not.
Aboru five ptr-oni grabbed ihe ziMo:bo>es from the returning officer. Mr P.S. Polti's tab!;, threw them down fromthfj eastern side of the court's coinp'iexand later walked down and sped awayin a waiting chocolate coloured Marulicar.
None of the Sawyers had ever seenthe "sr.atehers" before therefore theyexpressed their inability in rarnirgthem. But they were stated to b:weahng sweaters. In a compla'n:lodged with t!;e Tilnk Marg policestation, Mr Rajiv Khosla. secretary ofthe Deihi Bit Assoc^i'icn action com-mittee, said that the unidentified per-sons fled in M.iruti ( IJBA 2060). MrKhosla said in the complaint. "I;appears to i;s that some mischief h .sbeen plajefl imenticnally by somepeople having vested interest, and theyhave done h with ulterior motive tosabotage the lawyers unity". No arrestwas made till late in ihe evening.
Today's decision to conduct shesecret ballot was taken by the SupremeCourt Bar Association on February 22and a three-member committee comprising Mr Poll. Mr Dholakia r.iid MrRatnaparikhi v-rre empowered to con-duct the poll. Ms Kahda Kiiaiocn wasappointed the acting secretary of the"SCBA.
On accepting a requisition by !53members of the SCL'A seeking post-
ponement of the* .-.*.... u-.i..,...- >a.-inight, she issued t ce suspendingthe bsilot until the extra general bodymeeting was over.
At 9 a.m., the po',1 comiT.itiee hadmade arrangements for the <"-o"ballot. Two ballot bo\e« were ken' ""a table 'outside 'he library. -papers were also kept in ord-r. 1.were not many lawyers present in thecorridor then.
At 10 a.m. members s!ar;-:o pouringin and voting started amidst muchconfusion. As lawyers started castingtheir votes, some bwyeis tried toprevent them saying '.hey could notvote in view of '.he rxace of MsKhatoon who had "ordered"suspension of the secret bai'ot untilsome decision was taken by tne extraordinary general body r<K ' •:Eastern lawns of ihe e. , .belonging to the suhcr..1in:ue t^umopposing the baibt however restrainedthemselves from fu:"r.?r im . .t.i. ,.on secin2 some tinier advocates suchas Mr V. M. Tarkur.d?. Mr Soli J.Sorabjee and Mr K. K. Venugopalthere.
There were heated exchanges amongthe members attending the meeting.There was ciear division wV.-ther thescheduled secret b.iiio; should'be heldor rot now. After specciies by seniorr.d". '.Kates, the extra c*din;ir. generalbedy decided p-jstpcr.s r.icnt of th£ballot till March 7 \.hen ihe com;reopens after the Ho!i break. Surpris-ing^, the requisionists had asked forMarch 5 for conducting the ballot sothai lawyers could resume or rcfr^...from work when the court opens onMarch 7.
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Con'ir --.-I i'iotn p»->;e 1.- co!. SJetbrr^'-d-i-ii.M'.ved !nt)t ?h^y il-oulanol prevent •.;-•:M v?ntin» to c:;-.LiiL*with ih-.- •«%;:. bale: tut «-W--i :h~yshould alw ---.. scc-pi ihr w i : . t o'the ballot. V.li.:e sur.t.onin; Mire!: 7
for baiiot. iis senior idvociie al'.cattacked il,: ,;0>ernment for hclr.gapathetic to-rds the law,ci% strktE.nd demand:-
Reacting ic- Mr Jcthmah-.r.:"s state-ment, Mr Gobinda Mukhot* saidpolitics she*a be kept a: !>•-> ^rulcdealin; with ;>.e lav,-.sri>' s'.r:«;.
V.h^r: the ^rtciing vas ov"r ar.dlawyers v,cr; .::;r.i-s up, the i.rc-.ip of"unidcT;fici" p>"so-ii grabbed I':?ballot boxes, e-.p-.ied them 2".i i::re*down. Mr >;*,<hoty claimrf 'I-.'t! h'..uied to ca'Xl ti"i? ^nipnts as hs r^aatUT them i:r a shoa distance.
Durinp. the snb ballot box?v someadvocates v:*:e ri-^har;dicd. Mr Pollhad a r,5:T0» cscip: and an atiempiwas rr"?.'Je, M: Aral Div2:i, e>? v.>nesses ssid. V.: M. S. Gancsh. presi-dent of th- ,'.;•.X'.:cs-Cii-F^c-;>-..t As-sociation, aU:- had a tru«h »:th the"looters'1 wht'-vent ^mock ^ .:*.''. 165volts had rx?B cast by the rnrmbers.Trom the raided b-liot pap-;t\, v.hichwore jtrewp rr. the floor it vsf i a i t tthai rnojon?) of tnem voted agaitistthe ir.dcfinte strit? in the ape*, court.
Pcrn^iv.'d c-:t Uir iricident. Mr K.K. Vcr-i:;of-i'. said tnai sritchinga\--ay of !:2!."-: boxci proved th^'t theaMi-ha'liv ^K'JO" of lawmen*- «-ss inminority ;ni hence Supreme Courtlawyers wouii r-'sume work on March
f=ICN.m-r.E DRIVEAs many 2S 205 advo-;ates i'riOttiy
started a sigrj£ure •T.ii.ipaign appealingto the lav.->env.i suit sppeanni ;>r: thecourt on Mar:." 7 A group of Uwyerscomprising &::v:u sfnior advecites isexpected to meet ins chief justir* ofIndia, Mr R. S. Pa.ii.kii, tomorrow toapprise him of the recent ds>elop-rr;eu!s zr3 t-<:'S res.;!ution ic attendthe i-ourt sws the Holi bre-k. MrPathak rn2v v" requested to e-erci'ehis HdmimcM^t povc. aro curb"l^'.vle?^::?^"' ir* the Supreire Court'scomplex.
Mr MuKhot., v»ho had yesterday toldr.ev-smcn i t ; : he v.-suid' resijr. ft cmth^ ':hairm5r^"ip of the action com-mil'.ce if snv stolen':" -ook p: •-'£ at thesecret ballot. sa:d ti:ai he wou'd stocn]b\ rus ar'.nj.^^M'.cni pro\u'.ed therewas prims v.ai evidence thii "myboys" were Str.trid the inciJem.
i-Jefening to the decisions of MrYeni'S-ipi! ETd Mr V. M. T:;-Kunde,who is also ET :--3-: n;h:s s:tr.-.St. *•':Mui.hou s:.;i ;'iey should iive. s s « .
'•.::i VO per c:r.t r.-.it>. hii still there. . ^ 10 per i..:;. loft behind, arr!.nr.-'~eJ n.s c-t: -,- to f-.---.sn, Mr DaljuTa'.con, ch?.irr..irl. of '.he Delhi Ear•*>c-.eci?.uon. bv.:"" irto Vu^i
.\ utur s.no-r. ~, Mr Tendon v. i-ptlike a'child scys.-,, "don't xcil us youare resigning. Don't cow down with?ucii questions .~nd adverb-.- p-..bhcuy".
He said the Tees F-v-.ii Court wasgoiiig to die. V':pir,[; his teats beforep.CAsmep. 21 the Press Club in the lateaf.ernoon, Mr Tar.dor; s.iic "we arethe ^ictnns of tyrants. I was thiT.y<nout by Sir Bharriva;. Money, richpeople and adverse propa&a.!d.i willtill us".
A sobbing TandcTi ?.'ik--;d trie r'j-p-c-uc" to see for theiii.-.-lves andinterview the lavr-ers v.r.o v.e*c beaten
V.iiiie the work by the lawyers in theS.ipreint Cou.'l was at standstill sincefobruary 19. iavyers ir. thesubordinate courts hi1, e been on strikefor over a month fcllow;r.s hand-cuffing of one arrionjM thcr. involvedin 'i thef- c»se by the no-i!i districtpolice on January 15. Later, sa™.elawyers were iathichar^ed outG;di- MrsEcdi's office ar;d or. r'ebruary 17 they^uficrcd nioo violence leu bv c. Con-gress councillor. Mr Rajesh Ysdav,
in a st.vemer.:. Mr M. C. Bhandare."presidem" of tne.SCB\. s:ii tna' the"hijacking of the ballot boxes" washijhly undemocratic and en act ol
"Those vho fieht for human rightssh-wld s<'e that basic n.,h! to vote c t 'o-.i.crs is not frustr^wd, "ooid S'.r
jonty m the ^luorenie Ccurt h35 nowdecided to lift the siege fioni March 17 "
The Te:s H^ari Ear sssociationclaimed that none of i\s members wereinvolved in the moir.ins's incident.
forcibly took r-wa> the baiiot boxesappeared to L.ivc done it at th-_ bthestof those vho wanted to create adivision among li.c lawyers aau m;-lign the stake.
The THIS Hsrari association alsocssured the Supreme Court bar as-sociation that it wou'd help the lat.erheld Eiothcr secict ballot and evenpru'.ice a "cornrn.-iKio fcr-.'e". toensure peaceful polling.
The I>elhi lawyer?' Associa'ia -,however, appealed to the striking lav'yen thai i' was high time t'-u'v pai-s-d iand took stock of their X'-'-d.v,.J.d
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Eisnnial ol-.c tians/Bye-alections. 62 ™ 73
Di53clutlcp of Pu-iTiDb Logislctiv"Asssv.blv snt: irnpositi^n cf Prssicsnt'sRuiz in Punjab, . 74
Press reports en elections andpoli t ical systems cf forsigncountries ap.ci ntf.ar matters ofintsres t . 7 5 - 8 3
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The Dccunanr.atl3n is intended to acquaint the
officers 'nnd staff of fna Connissicn and the Chiaf
Electoral Officers and thsir staff uith articles an .
current political issuss public hod in Periodicals/
f'suspapars, received in tha Comnissinn's Library, .
development in the field of electoral iau sriL
procsdure, progress in the dispose! of clsction
petitions, judicial decisions thereon, Cotntnission's
decisions en qusstiens as to disqualification of
members to oither House- of Psrliamsnt or of tha
State Legislatures and bya-slections to both the
Houses of Parliament and Stats Legislatures,
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(i) Biennial elactions/Bys-elsetions.
(ii) Dissolution of Punjab Legislative Assemblyand imposition of President's Hula in Punjab.
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and cth^r matters of interest a'-pcarcd in various
psricdice Is/nsuspspars uhich u rrs received in the
Corn-icsiori's Library tiurinc tine month of Fiarch,T9£6.
A l i s t of such articles as are considered to be oF.
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'"."minijj Angus andShahrisr. Fiasssn
*&n Ersatz Election, , 14,1?88
Difft,Susan *No contost. Time % Har c h, 1 4,1938,
* flag, parliamentary p. 11elections in Bangladesh.
td i ta r i s I EiShad'a politics The Hindustan Tirnes,neg.parliaifirant^ry Mcu Oslhi,
slsctie.ns in Banrjladsshafiarch, ^,*9S3,p,*il3
^shed's victory Naf.innal Hscaltlsfi&u Dei;narch?,1988,p,6
eta ie;na te inDanoladssh
The 5t3t2S-an:Delhif'"arc'h S,19ESjp,6
Vic tory f~r Ersh-d. The Times of India :Meu OelhiFisrch D, 1963, p . 6
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ND accord on Afcanictar.i Tra Timtjs of India,ohst^cias to o 'leu Delhi,sritt lcn^nt. Tl-rcn iEjiTtDju-C
Sinoh,3.f-ihal
Logic of mil i tary rule— "'he Times o~ Ind?.c.
Eriitori^l Astute but riskyRng» th2 decision
af President.Najibuilsh taheld elscti.cnto the natienciassembly ofAfcanifiban.
The Times of Indiatlci: Delhi,
^ 2 2. Pi1"-. !>£. iS ("iDivided oppositionh^lps Faudis ta tors hip
On J;he po l i t i ca ls i tua t ion of Pakistan,
Patriot;f-,\n,j [\n 1 h ifV - _ . U > -7. '( p ^. r>
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India?, fx^reas;Uzu Ovi.hl,f'iarch 2C?1Ssr,fP, 8
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Uebs t e r , Paul The choice facingFrance
Reg.the forthcomingprosi.dontis1 eloctionsin Franc ,
National Herald;N'GU Delhi,Parch 29,1988,p»6
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Uho uas uil l ing to spend Sunday:tv.3rch6~1 2,1 ?2GRs.40 crores for Zail pp.6-?Singh ?
8u r g s r , Ui 1 Hornand fiajunderSudip
Gandhi'3 Punjab puzzlaMarch 20,1963.pp.S-9
Chaula, Prabhu Crcatinr?' ccnfusicn. India Today?Rsg.ths disclosure of Herch15-30,1983
the forner Presidenc pp.34—3GZoil 5ir.r.;h rocontly that.h,9 i'ss offered Rs.30 crcreto R?,40 crore to contestlast year's presidentialpoll but he refusod todiscloss HE: ires.
Uijay A reshuffle uithcutreform.
An insido report onthe iebest reshuffleand i t? l i lo ly fall out.
Prcbe India;riarch,1988pp.. 15-1 9
Gupta Shakherand f'.udgai, \/ipui
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India Todays.Harehi 6-31 .1923PP.2S-33
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Risky bvz.ir-'zzc I L V L ; T ' I ' I ; . - r ; n ' l I'-i—'i 9 , 1 'Th:- -vthov -izitcs cr, pp,2.-:™23
'Jill peace neverratuin io Punjab
k^lfTT^dyi-t J-.nci Cpp 's f i n a l s p l i t . B l i t z I r ' a r c b 1 9 , 1 9 8 8t , ,2P0Cr } Sapjay p p . 1 u 25
svr ,.«",£. -•?*' - ^ »- £5 — i r* '-^-, f r! •— '"5 ^" t^o 1' 1-*"» r* *? T I T K ' L ' V * r"'3 "'* P h1 /^ V ^
c fv? o kf>i^ t ^ * n p r j J i 2 j t lJ t: i." j
Rsc . ths rn3rnsr of po»14«'1t-3 s n t a Pa r t v andLev. Dal (A).
r-" a « , i h*./^ U^ r T*->!»• / i " r r n r o --". i^^ f i pn c , ' m r ' p \ ' ' r.":'-= r h i "^ . ' l Q 1 9 A ^
The author urifces pp.i2.27uhethar ti'inrc uas ;icons piracy to topple ,Rajiv? u)'"D uas rc-sdyto provids Sh,Zail SinghRs, ;D c: cres for hi"re-elsction? Jn?-treally happened inthese t e n s G d £y £ la £ tyear? Here is tho fullinside story.
3itU snJ Vho's the l i c r ? SunrJp.y.r;-;rrch 27-esthor3 ^3C|»-jiir:Lh"r the Apr i l 12,19ES
extend i n t o ConnrRcs(l)?Uhst rt.-lG did3/S Arjun Sinch , P,w.f.'orsinha ilr.Oj/^shok Sonand BP-lt\"!n Ccikhsp plav?And should Giar i Z o i l 'Sineh b e t r u s t e d ?
AJJJJ- IJLR
S ho k hs r , G. C, Chiaf minister inuniting,
Thp author says thatt'no poli t ical vsccufsin 7smi 3 Madu causodby the ds&th ofRG3 has focusedattention on onsm-n 'Jho has beenpatiently waitingin ths wingsfor over a decs daShri K.K.Karunanidhi,But u i l l tho Or.K'3charismatic leaderbe ^bls to wrestini t ia t ive frcm hisopponents?
. Uahal,5«F!. Cabinet expansion!An oxerci^B infu t i l i ty .
Alive:"a rch(ist),1988pp.11-13
( b ) Up us pa par 3
D!ia,Akhilshuar Sbatbat9S~2 n:D^'Jhy oppositionLeaders cannot un i te . f'3.ccb2,1 98E , p« 6
Nulcaakar,S *Ihe ..matter of ZailSingh boodle.
Indian Express;N-JIJ Qalhi,
Edi tor ia l
Edi to r ia l
Edi tor ia l
r dissolution The Hindustan Tirr,es:Ne;j Dslhi,what?
•^Looking ahead in f'ciicnal Ho raid?Punjab. • . [!EJ Dalhi,
*Reg ths dissolution ri«rch B,19G3,p,Gof Punjab assembly.
Chance in Fianiour Invjit-f £:<pro3s;Reg;, tha imposition Kan Oolhi,
z-. p.eu Chief Minis tar M^rcn S,!96c,p»8in Hani pur
Edi tor ia l Uhat next in Punjab? Pa tr.'. c- ;!'.'3« Holii
«. o
Sens PrafullaChandra
l "Yrlp'jra ?>ho<j In? uay The StatcnMcns'iclhi.al? fetch -9, H:GG,p.,?!-to Uost Bengal?
The Author asuhethsr TVinurs nssanbly•slecti:::. results f i l l hnvsny ir<~---ct in t-iest Bonqfelelect!ons t
P u b b y , l : ! p i n
Adcar . i , L.K.
H. f?
Edi to r ia l
Pubby,iiioin
National Hsralrij
!*larrvh 10,1 SC6, p, 6
Indian Express?Neu Delhi,riarchiO, 198B, p.B
India ExpresasNau Dalhi,Hsrch 10, 1 JPL , r-,'i
Presidont*s x'ule.Rec« inDOSitier, of
Pr&sicJsnt's ruia in 'Punjab snd Tar.il Nadu,
Tripura NsusIettEir;Uh^t divides Conoreasfl)and TUDS. .. " '
Thr, Haf.ya Sabha r;pi3cde:I t topr-ened in 1S50 also.
ftsc*ihe Eboarablsbshavicur of ths rulingparty in Rsiya Sobro onuhlch the Ch3i rmsnSh.S.D.Sharspa offeredto rssign. -
Uh&t a5.1s our juclicla). Tha 'Hindustan Tlsr^s;sysLsi«"'I New Delhi,
March 2,19S8, p'i1
Tha Hindustan Timer:;Ncu D«lh:.March 10.'iS3B,p.11
The Tirsss of India,Nau Delhi,
U ^ t a i l s our judicial
Abr narr.,-* ,S . In pursuit of unity-Opposition divirisd'sHdecibis.' r: lent.
Anothsr Nocturnal i'rac&,Rao, the rcnlacercnt of
r.r,'<eishinr; as Chi = friiriistar cf r-.anipijr byMr.R, ;•.„ JsichsncJra Singh,
H o r s e - t r u r . - i r . Q " i f t s i 'con??rr.--.iy p o l l
"sGn. tVa OL-V.C.r.r..n Mf ti i2C3C%; : ass2T !- . l y ; ] T r t \ :
The Ti~.as of I n d i s ;March ' 1 ,1 SBf; f p , G
Indian Express;Nau Delhi:i ^ r c h 12,1903 fp«B
AUTHOR
Raman, J»-S-i
T ha ku rDanardan
Chopra,V.O,
Editorial
A nap t a r a,-nan,
Editorial
Dua,H.K.
Editorial
Editorial
^mrgancy 5 ta lk , «nfsabladlag.is la tsj?a«On tha question impositionof eraarg^ncy in Punjab',
Ths c i rc ls Is complete,A'ocufc tho Punjab problem
Punjan again en crossroads
Tactics in Janata,Rcc.th'3 rnerqsr of Lc-k Oal
(A)"with ths'Danata Party,
Ye lieu pol i t ics in TamilNadu.
On tha p o l i t i c a l scansin Tamil Nadu a f t e r thadeath of Sh.C.G.Ra n-.a c ha n d r a n
Tnpsy-turvy log icGn the holdine cf by-
e l e c t i o n to t ho A 1 la ha ba dpar l iamentary cons t i tuency ,
Punj>ib:Absence cf po l icy
Rnjya Sabha choicss5
R'jr-. ,tha ssl^ct ior cfConnrsss candidates fortha biannisl olnctions toth- Rajya Sabha,
Disunited they r'3T?.in.Rag,tha C-ngr^ss ( l ) ' s
perf crmEnce in '.it? I "nng;:l
59th ens^dnant-Punjab do9snot nrmri it»
Ooihi;.
Tha Hindustan Tiaes(Magazine) \'eu Ds.lhl,March 13,1908,3.5
Patriot:!'aw Delhi ,March •i4s"»9QQ.p.A
The Stat53man:0sl.hi,
Indian Exprass;Neu [)•-;] hi ,
h
The Times of Icsdi:MGU Delhi,Na'rch 15,198?],p,-5
Tho Kinueo ••.-.-:.n TiLr ^3
n----rch 1?31<:r;;]J,nJ, 1!
The Ti.vi'."1?. of I n d i a ?MGU D e l h i
March i P , 1 9 C 3 , p . 5
The . Hind- j" tcn r?.--^;-;
rhH H * nn' • : t•"•-n t*i ~ r- 3 •
:i3u O r i K .s/i, 59th Crnsti tL' t inp.alA b his h e k ?] H n u c D O - d IT: e n t ~ Z I J d i c i " .1 r avis u
s t i l l pcfSf. Lbie,
Centr R—2 tcts re lations-1Uinesta
i < •'•' ', • " - • ' • ' TITLE
The. Hindustan Tinas:(Ha c a v i r, o ) ; Delhi
The; u.vi te r u'riies c :
Editc
riaan.i
c n t h 3 t • i n q u - £ t i r n — • J no a fCi-c r^n Singh*?
Tlia lof t and Gyanij i .
Thn br. t t l a royal''sgrt'na holding cf bye-«
s Is c t i a n to the A1 la ha ba dBsssr.:bly constit(j:-incy,
Tr^cj^ny of ths Girrdl-G^irivar.cas lony nuraaci.
t a r
j a i n , C i r i i a l Trccsrfy of the GianiII'-Is:',f.'Otsnt race overPunjab
"i3 ll ictrs , TndEr Pclitir.aJ. comnrnthry.Unity,opposi t ion s t y l s
Th.akur, Last chance fear tha ^aja1;
Shri U.P.Singh if Viestands fcr the Allahabadbye-slection*
Chakravartty, The RMya Sabh?. today,Niknil
Editorial ^In the r ight direction..
Editorial ^Visions of unity*Ht>g.the efforts of tlv?
«ari."us opposition partiesto unite as to fern &nat i cr.a 1 ?. Itsr ns tive toConciess(l),
National Ha raid;Neu Delhi,March 21-,"! 538,p. 6
The Statesman!Delhi:March 21,19GS,p,6
Th3 Tit.-es of India
flarch 23.1 STa.p.o
The Times of India,Uow Delhi,P.arch 2 4 , 1 9 6 5 , p . 6
Tha Tiwf?8 cf India ,Neu Delhi ,March 25,1980,p.6
The Hindustan Times,(Kanarins) ,McU Oslhi t .March 27,1588,p.6
The Tiuss cf- India(Sunday Review)fJeu Delhi ,F.ai-ch 2 / , 1 3S8 , p. i &3
Indian ExprussiNeu Delhi,f'arch 29s19D0,pV8
The Hindustan Times;Neu DclhijMarch 29,'j 938, p,'i 1
Edi burial
Editorial
Editorial
Editorial
TTTJ.E
^Rajya Sab ha po l l . Patricf.Msu Oglhi,March 30,1980,p.4
•*NQ surpr i se . The Hindustan Tinas;"-f-Rag.the outcome of the New Delhi,,
recent biennial elections March 30,19£;~,p.13to Rjjya Sabha,
*The h-mbling of Mr, Meg da. Ma t ional .Kara Id,f!eu Delhi,March 30,19S6 tp.6
*l'arnai;2ka c r i s i s . The Times nf I n d i a ,Meu D»?lhi,
Editorial issidance in Karnataka*0n t'ns Rajya 3-:-bfia
biennial slacfcion in
Tha Hindustan Timssa
i:a;j Delhi,Plnrch 3O.,1S£3,p.T5
Hatch 21,i9E"%tp.6
Edi to r ia l ' «5hoc'< tbirapy for r.'TR The Hindustan Times,i.'au Dolhi,Tiorch 31,l^c£,p,-l3
Edi to r ia l *Andhra's warky po l i t i c s National For^Lds
Edi to r ia l fiRsuoli: in Ss j th ,
of t ran^fcr t ndnisterof Andh'-Ti Pi-cdnsh bathfrcrr: c:i inefc as vnll asfrom ih:3 St^ta sssarably,
Pctriot:r,'au Oalhi ,Fare!- 31,193Gfp.4
iJndoX" Section 105 of the Representation of the
People; Act,1951, the High Courts are required to
send a ccpy each of orders passed by than in a leetien
petit ions. Similarly under sacticn 116, the Supreme
Court in reauired to send a copy each c? ths orders
passed by i t in election appeals. Gists of the
orders cf respective High Courts end Supreme Court
are published in this chapter uith a visit i:o
acquainting readers uith the salient points of these
orders.
This Issue contains gists of 7 judgments in
election petitions - one each from the High Courts of
iiilEhabadjGujarat and Rajasthan and tuo each from
High Courts of Bombay and Madras. Tuo election
psfcitions UQTS alloued by the respective High Courts
whereas one pstition uas allcued to bs withdrawn.
The ether petition? usrs dismisscc'.
( ^ : L F : c " f i . ' . M P ^ T I T I C : : r : o , 2 1 O F I ? G S )
3as h:.r Ahrrad . . . ' . , Po hi tioner
F.ukum Singh ap.d others , , , . .Respondent
The pet i t ionar Shri Bashir Ahnad, a defeated
candidate challer.ned the election of Shri Nukum Singh
in the Llttar Pradesh, Legislative Assembly from
411— Kai.vana assembly constituency in the general election
hald in 1985.
The grounds on uhieh the pet i t ion was fi!=?d usra
as follo'js ;~
1. The resu l t cf the elect ion in so far as i tconcerns the returned candidate, has !:eonmaterially sfPacted nithiri the meanino ofSection 10j (d) ( i i ) a (iv) uf the Act in : Jmuch c<3 the votes relat ing to G l"rca nurberof polling s t a t i ons , 'jhich e'nould not 'nay? beentreated as valid sr.d counted in favour of cherespondent ^ c . 1 , usro in fact counted as validvotes fcr the -respondent Mc.'i contrary to thaspecif ic directions an"1 instructions issuedby ths Election Corn.vdsSicn on 6,11,1934,
. Tha ordor dated G«11.19G4 uas issued bv theElactic-n Compissit.n co the effect that th^rauDuid he a presumption of boor.h caocurii'c- ifthe t o t a l votes polled are 9"?.?, or T.uro, end in theevent of booth cP.ntvv ing " the order dated C, 11,1934obliged t i l 3 Returning Officer to cancel- thsooli and or'ier- rspoils
The rssnen'-ient No.'! his election cr-ent, ^ c n t s ,workers :_nd supporters ui th his consent d i rect lyand indiroctly^ interferred uith ths free -xorcisoof e lec tora l r ioht of a lf:rna nuir.ber of votarr. a tvarious polling ' sic -, v:ns and forcibly prcontedthem frcin exercising their rioht r,b 'vot? and. agsuch comritted corrupt practice by uay cf undueinfluence.
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As rscsrds thn f i r s t c1Irrs U.nn, che Ui-c.U Cavrl '
rvscS that the duty of th's patitio.vir was to cln^o'
s ta te the proci.se r.aturs of f'"s orcisr dated fi: 11 .1 >•;?•'
sn'J ths material facts relating thereto, prctvi a
meticulous scruting of ths -re !e\jant p'iragraprs, i t u-'
rranifar.t that the petitioner has failed to spoil out
ths precise nature of tho order riatod G.H .1984.
and to disclccs.thc facts ID lr. ting thereto,,
Tho releur.nt paragraphs contoirung i-nputatj.cn
iaanticrad at (1) above usrs struck out as they lacked
in material facts.
Relevant paragraphs ccntair.&ny allegations
mentioned at (2) abovs usrs also struck cut as the
allocations made in i t lacked in Material facts .
Ths petition uc~s dis rr.issad with costs by th??
High Court vide i t s order dated' 17*2.19E6.
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- i6 -IV IMS HIGII .n iUi iT OF a:.ijA,":-.T , aH;^Q toAQ
ELECTION PEITITIGK Mn. 11 CF 19G5
P a t a l Atmaram flag anbhai . . . Peti t ioner
- ya r s u s -
Raual Naresh Kumar Gangarsm . * . Respondent
This pet i t ion was f i l ed by Shri Patol Atrrnram
Mag anbhai against th3 election of 3hr i ft aval v'aresa
Kumar Gangaram. a returned candidate to the
Gujarat Legislat ive /Assembly, 1965 in tho
gansral election held in March, 1985 from 8 5- 'iije-pur
ass .-nbly constituency.* The p t i t i onsr 'Jas sponsored
by the B3P and polled 39926-uct&s uhilc3 the returr '-d
ndidatea, who uas oponoored by Indian Mttional
Congrcss(l), sacurod 43249 Votas i . 9 . 64? note votes
than the pa t i t i o n s r .
The charges made against i n r i Gangar-m '-'.~r3 .?.s
fol lows: -
(1) The sst-jrned c;.naidat8 coiTrnitt3d carrupbpractic.3 of causing undua in ' luarcs c;" thevotnr:; by making certain donations.
(2) The s?3turnori c;:r:didat2 Uas ret d j iyqual i f ied tc contest the alcccic-ninasmuch as hs h._d not comrl;;ted25 yaors of ogs t t tha time of f i l i n - ihis na-iin-tian p;-per.
(3) Tharo '-'as large scalo .unlau-fu 1 recsotf.en ofvoid votes and that i t had material lyaffectfi r! the resul t of tha Bj.'sccLono
(4) Larga sc.^la irragu.laritis.g uac-j ocm-.-i'.'.t.addiiring the counting of
c
'•vr. ..': . • ;" ' : ..:::•;:••'•• - - • - c tu^-Z ' j - . ' i o r r ; u , a s - n o o l a a r
3vi:;D^";:- -- .-.-r^^r. •.•••••I ~ rs r, h i t jlvztiov n^anto,, to prove
i'ne c h a r e " s rvdr r :-;-„ •-.- r :':" -^ un-v.i2 in f I u^r:;;5 on v o t e r s by
d a n s i i c n , " S i s -.:-; .."c--.- caul . , r o t bo Dicvod beyond S-ubt an
herei; u a ; r-^ ' =-2;'?. J ~3 Ir. the C332 of ciurindr.r Singh l/s.
chsrg-a u ; 3 ':.l--::' :•• :-^ sc t- ;,' - : , t!"-Q r K spofidin " u^s above _
2-5 V3;.r c ' ige on thn data of f i . l ino n o n i n a t i o n and by
n i s t - ' - c D r l y ''Lz- :-"~j? '••'v.- ^hc'-'i; s:s 21 y o ai s in tha e l e c t o r a l
r o l l « "~-^ ~;3trrrari;; C^rioi-T her' cccBpted h i s n o n i n c t i c n s
a f t e r V2ri;"; ' ipy the rac t . - -7h3 •.•srsotinn' c ^ vo te s due: to
imps; son r t". r;n !Jas al--o not ac:>ipt2c E? the p :5t; . t inn2r
hi:d fE;*Is-_ to p r c A ; ; : n.jcss3?.ry prcof r;"Qsrding da^d or
abss,-. t v c t i r s in who':; 3 nr-ns t'ny i ? " er .ion ntic-r. uas 3.11 ogsd
to h ?y s iEkan pi ccc > r-lorEcv/ar» •-• - i s - -c p r aps r ed by
the p s t i t i a n s r er:uni?r <?tsli only 225 y o t s r r and as such
l i i i S J d l H ; .. •:.).: .> .. i'\'- <*• ! :'• - i v - . r O . ' . p ;.; I " i t i ) V ;V3 L j L - u - 1 J P U L .
held t h i s r; 11 eg ?-i. i o H to be prevsci. The cuuri. el 30 ex c mined
tha d i a r i e s of tr..s Pi-csidirig CfTictrs and observed that
thera ^as ";•? avi.c?ncp tc sho^' cl;normal voting nr ony
complaint. ; :" sr &a f :A zr.-; stage z,'>' po l l i ng , Tho alldQation
reci-rr-inc'i rr;.atic,>: c * -t^cijpharB or tw'-To; ^as also nal
by tha 0.3 L-r. t 'iu hays not baen pi'ovadi - * -
r .None of t r e charges-uara prnued ar.'d- the "pstit ion
uas sfisrrdLS'sd by the High Court ordar Gn 25,4,1966.
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1 i , t
Si — i ;...;;.;;.:.:: ,'••;•.• ,--:: f h a n d a . ^ P e t i t i o n e r .
1/3,
Shr i L a l i t KA shore Ch.-'curved i ^Respondents
and Others
The e l e c t i o n p e t i t i o n iJas f i l e d by Shri Oayuis'n
Prasad Thanda, a riafoated candida te , c a l l i n g in a uss t ion the
e l e c t i o n cf Shri La l i t K ishore l ' hn turvadi bo tha Haiasthan
L e g i s l a t i v e Assembly from IQT-Kota Assembly Consti tuency in
the gene ra l e l e c t i o n held in Harelip 1565;,
The p e t i t i o n was i 'ilau on the f o i l o u i n j g rounds : -
( i ) s e v e r a l i r r e g u l a r i t i e s uers- committee ouring the course ofcounting Dy the counting s ta f f ;
( i i ) t h e ' i m p r o p e r acceptance of nomination papers of respondentNo.2 riaosnlai Uaaiual and respondent 'io ,'Z Abdul Salum; and
( i : i ) t h a t var ious corrupt p r ac t i c e s wsr*-: connrdltGa by therespondent iici.1 v i z : the r t tu;nsci c ann i Ja t c , h i s e l ec t ionagent ana o the r s at h i s ins tance ano with h i s connivance,
As regaras ths i r r e g u l a r t i e s in counting by the counting
p a r t i e s , i t uas niiGgGLi Dy tiia p is t i t ionar th~t form No,16 ana
For^ No.20 uero preparea by the counting sl:-^fr' without caring
to s c r u t i n i s e or ch,2cK th3 t zbulatic-ns, They declared r e s u l t s
in utmost hasto ::na t h e r e usrc nunsrous ins tances cf s v e r -
u r i t i n i s which uere not p.t g i l in i t i - i l l t sd by tn~ Returr-ing
Officer a f te r hearing both ths p - r t i e s s i t was h o b by the
Court t h a t no doubt t he r e -'era ':o-: e nvcv —.:? itirje in ths r e s u l t
shes t -is ucl.1 ;:~ in fo r " ' i c . ' 5 ' b u t th-T3C '.J-..rs i n i t i - lie-; J ano
thrb in t:ie c:jscnc= of ;-.ny cc.Tip 1 air. I in u r i t i n j zv the pot i t ionc
or h i s e l e c t i on ngunt Jur i r , , tir- ccu- ; . ; c" count!;:-.: about a l l s ; ;
i.r rer;-'! j:i-i';i.yi i'vu.'iTo baan committed, the oral testimony of the
-petit ioner or his witnesses cannot be tsl ieu upon. •
•As jc]u:c!3 i'.r-.G urongfui acceptance of nomination paper
cf rEspcncrnt i!c,2,. 5:iri Had an Lai Udsiual, i t uas allogaa
fcbctf; ha t;as in -the employment of uovt , of India in tha Ministry
of'Defence on tha coot of Sanitary Mate and tendered his
resignation f'ren" th::t post on 31-1-1955-with the request that
the s?.n? may be accepter u.e.f, V-2--19S5. The petitioner
slle^sa tftat 3hri Mad-->n l.al u'dsi'J?! continued to be in Bovb.
ssrvics ?.s bis resignation uas accepted on 25,2.65 uith ,
retrospective effect u.&.f .1,2.S5. Acceptance of rasignatioa
rrora bsck date to him w s not psrwissio 1c in Gout, service.
. I t uas he Jo by the Court, after hearing the parties that if a
aov t . servant E32';s retira'.isnt from o specifie-j data, i t is
Ccr tha compotsnt authority to accept the resignation from tha
specified aata and. if the Rams is . accsptad from the date .
specified, i t cannot bs said t h a t h i s resignation has been
accepted uith retrospective effect, fierej.y because in tha
instance case as 3h. Uuaiuai had in. his let ter of resignation
sought discharge uith effect from 1.2,85 and tha competent
authority had sought the approval of. the request uhich uas
accorded on 25th Feb.,85, i t cannot be said that the resignation
"Was accepted uitb retrospective date.
It uas also alleged by th3 petitioner that resp.No.3
Sh, Abdul Sclan uas a contractor uith tha Municipal Council
Kota arij was ncdnj subsisting contracts on the a,iio he filed
nomination papers a? UKII as on the date of their scrutiny.
He hr.d therefore allegedly incurred disqualification under
ssctinn 9\ of t'r.o R.P.Act ,1951 . I t \<as h&ld by the Court
i-hat in.-; Municipal Council is not a dr-partr/ont of ths uoi't.
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and as already statea curlier, :Lt is constitutes unjcr the
[•lunicipaiitios Act, I t is a local authority ana thareforc
Section 9A of the Act is not attracted.
Therefore the Court held that the respondents Ko.2&3 had
not incurred any disqualification under Sec.SA of the R.P»
A c t . , 1 9 5 1 .
The third ground of petitioner uas that the returned
candidate published tuo pamphlets and circulated tham in the
said assembly constituency uith a vieu to unduly influsncs
the electors from exercising thsir doctoral ri^ht in a Tree
and fearless manner by making .falsa propagands. 3y the second
pamphlet, inaucement to vote for the returned candidate uas
given offering certain in case the retured candidate uas .voted and declered elected. It uas also stated in the said
pamphlet that in case the petitioner uas Declared elected,
harsh taxation ui l l be imposea. tnereby inducing the votes
through mis-representation and false progranda not to cast
theirvotcs in favour of the petitioner and to cast their
vote in favour of returned canaidr-te. The parties led evidence.
in support of their, respective allegations. The returned
conoicate did not uispute the printing and distribution of
aforesaid tuo pamphlets. It was also proved by the petiticiiar ' s
uitnass that these pamphlets uere pub iisheci 'by tnn returned
canCiidatff, Houever the returnted canuidate admitted that
the same uero published by his party of which he 'Jas the
candidate ana uhatover has been statea therein is correct.
After hearing tnc parties, the- i- curt held tnat-t-hc said
pawphlGt ucrs published by the returned candidate or his
election agent cr any otfvar porscn uith his concent or his eluction
agent and that the publication of the statement
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of facts uhich wns fr,ir;e uhich the roturne-1 candidate either
buli£v.'2d it to be fa Ira or did net believe it. to be trua in
relation to p ersonal charachtor or cordect cf the pstitionnr
boi.'ig 5 caPDioste far election, TA uas a statfunent .rsaconably
cslculsad to prejudicB. the prospocts of a candidate in tost
election. It. uas also hold that b y pub iiecticn of the; said
pamphlets-the; rc-turneo candidate cr sny. other person uith his
consent (Jirsctly or incJirectly interrered or attempted to
intarfsra uitn tha fras exercise of electoral rights of the
voters, Iht's, I t is a corrupt, practice falling under clause
(2) and (iv) of section 123 cf the Act, which uas committed
by the 3 leetad canais ate,
The election cf ^hri ^-haturvsai ua? declared to be vain
and uas set aside uith casts vide High Court Order .dfc.2.4,E7.
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CN PETITION UP. 2 OF ,1980
Chandrashekar n. Prabhu...., .Petitioner
Ratansingh Gokul Das and Ors. • Respondents
The petitioner 5hri Chandrashekar R. Prabhu challenged
the election of Shri Rajda Ratansingh Gokul Das, an elected
candidate to the Lsk Sabha from Bombay South Parlia;,iontary
constituor.cy in the general enactions iield in 1920. The
counsel for the petitioner requested tha Court for permission
to withdraw" the petition. notice of uithdfaual- a? potition
uas published in tha Gout, of India Gazette .» As no one came
fcruard to be substituted for the petitioner, tho !i»C allouod
the petition to be withdrawn on 18.G.1987.
i j i ' l f i ' - J i 'L ; . - , , , . ,•.„,"(
B a b u r r ' C 3 / 0 f - . ' a r a y a n r c o i - s c ' ^ v i , , . . . < • , « « » . ., < . * J - o t i - i i c n e r
Vs.
5ui<ii'c!eobaLu 2/0 Puriti-'.iU uiV-c zir.ci Oths* «.<.*«•••»• ofiespcndant.
The pet i t ion uas f i l ed aqcinct thn respondent^a roturnsd
candidate fron 151-Art-cri (31") Ao3cntjJ.y 'jonoti.tuency of Hater a'stra
Lor.isJ.ai".;.UE! Aosenbiy. the Gi.;nti.6n for which uas held ir; 1985*
The contention of the pb t i t i n rc r w;,s that Sliri Su.<hdeababu.' ••••
the 1st rsspandont had made a false statanar.t i n his nomination
papa" that he fcelongsd to the 'Gcnd' Tr i te .of tiie state montioned
at entry *ic» 18 of ths Part IX of the Scndule attached to ths
const i tu t ion (ST)» Order, 1350. In fact tno reopondont bolon-
ged to 'Pradhsn' Tribe of the ctata rrsntioned at entry Mo,'37
of th& above said crder and ho atatod th is i n hss noninaticn
paper? uhen he conteatad eioctions in t'oB years 1378 and Danuary
and J'!ay» 1950, Tha pet i t ioner alleged that t!ti& aniQunted to
•Ho declaration at a l l ' , v ie la t ing ths section 33(2} o'f the
n,P« Act, 1351, !-is urged that tho elect ion of the respondant
Wo, 1 be declared void.
The respondent ploaded that he i n fact Delonned to Gond
t r i bs and Pradhan i'as a aub-'critic cf the Gonri tr iDg and i s
nai'-iad as such for performing speci f ic job such as that cf .
bard, musician, prieat or minister, or that cf a chief of the
said t r iba ise The court did not agrc-a u i th th is vicu of ths
respondent. "The respondent also contended that c-nco i t uas
.rnantionocj i n tho nomination paper t.iat he bexongsd to the ST,
the ^;uesti-n lihotnrjr ha bslc-nricrd tc ono r;r the other t r i b s ,
cot:, of ur,i.ci'i have; t:zor. enjr.icrntad in ':hs proG.ldnrtir .1 crriei'
Tiic? ilinh 'jo'jrt r.;i:2rr;;;.; zc varicuo 3up*o-- :J Lcurt ruling
anc OCiicryad'— "UrvJcr cinusa {c; af Article 1:J1 (l) cf the
Cor.3tl tut ion, a ,;arson s i n i i ug disqualified f-;r Uoinc] chosen
as, and for Using, a i.itJii'Oer of tiuj Legislative .Assembly or
Legislative Council of a state, i f he is so disqualified by
or under the lau made uy parliament. Under clause (c) of
Art icle 173, a person shall not DG qualified to da chosen to
f i l l a seat in the Legislature cf a stats unless ho pessossas
such other qualifications as may Us prescribed in that Oslielf
oy or under any i a U tl]3d3 oy Pariianisnt. Sub-secti-on {2) of
secticn 53 of the representation of the people Act, 1^51, which
ccals uit lv presentation of noirdnaticn paper an-j rctj-jirsr.ionts
for a valid noriinction; lays dour, that in a constituency uhare
any ssat is rBsorvsd, a car;didats shall not 00 dseiiad to tte
qualified to be chosen tc f i l l that seat -unless his nomination
papas contains a declaration Dy hini spocifyinr th;j particular
caste or triDe of uiiici! he is .moMivr ana the E:GS in -ralation
ion tu uhic'n that caste or tr ice is a scheduled casts or, as
the case may CQ, a'scheduled tribe of tne Stats* Tills
therefore,proscribes as additional indiacensabla conditionprevision/for e l ig iD i i i t y in respect oi -a ischeUL, LQU TriDe,
u iz . , that tho noininaticn-pa,'5or ~ijst contain a declaration
regarding the particular ccGts or t i iba of -uhic.i no is a r emDer,
and i t ucuid not suffice tiiat tn--; candidate taioncs to a
particular tr ica of a scheduled TriDe, and the Declaration i s ,
therefore, an integral forin of nomination. I t goos witnout
saying that the Declaration in orc-cr to be riear.ingf'ul ana to
answer the purposes of the Act oust Do -a true oeciaration as
regards the caste or tr ies and giving a fsios -io.-, wrr-liun uould
amount to r,o declaration at a l l . ' "
"iNa ing the statement which uas :K. c trus, i:>..;jj.o D5 a' . ...
frarrant no,>ciii.i;Jiiar,cG uicii tiir1 prevision.- r-! f" zi.:; L i .•:".;i 3o(2j
which :c:;;ii»GS a Lruo cieciarauicn to re f;uuo» I t nust be
rGrr:c"'.L-cr;:d tha t the: o ther co;-)ta3':ir1g c a n d i d a t e s ' nave a r i g h t
tv> cnaller;v,a A:.o3 d e c l a r a t i o n r-.zaa cy arte of the c o n t e s t i n g
(:arididatuc;' cwd t : i3 r-atter has to L:O decidad by tho FJeturning
Officer a t t;-,s time of s c r u t i n y uho, in t.o:> ovor>t of tna d a c l -
a r c t i o n beirvc fc-una to be un t rue j i s ob i igad t c ru jocc tiie
T^c ps t i t i . cn ues a i loued by tho High Court vido i t s order
dnfced oGth ;;oi.»eribor f 1985,
( EUCriCN PETITION f:03. 5 AND 4 l"" 1285)
I.Thanqaraj al ias P,N,VallareiU , . . , Fetlticr-ar inElsctic*" Petition Mo.3
M, G, Ramacpandraar. & Othsrs «•. .Respondents
24P.Palanlandi «,... Pet.itic-ar inElection Petition No,4
Ve_rsjjs
I*!. G.Ramaehandran & Others
Through thesa clacticn peti t ions, tha .jlscticn of
Shri M.C.Ra mar. hand ran to the tha T^mil Kadu Lsojslcitiva
Assembly from 135-Andipatti consticuoncy ir "-ha general
election held in December,1934 was challsng-d,
T o facts.cf the case were that the Election
Con-mis si en had issued a notification dated "'8.3.1968 In
pursuance or ar t ic les 84(a) and 173(a) of ;:)-..s Ccnstituticn
specifying various authorities before uhom !:r..ndicates
mayrriske or subscribe oeth or affirmation. ClaijSQ(d) of
cha notifiestien provides that uhers a candidate is cut
of India, cath or affirmaticn may bs marie before fns
diplcrnatic or consular representative of India ir- ths
country u!;i9re the cs.ndidate happens to ba or any othsr
parser, authorised by cuch diplomatic or corf-lap
reprssentetivs.
On the recUGst of tba General Secretary of ADMK,
the Elccticn Connissicn issusd a tslox KSSJ: :C en 19.1^,190
uncer uhich i t instructed ths Ambasirdor cf Indie or tb.3
Ccnsult-Tts GenaraJ of India in NEU Vork? as tho my bs, - •
ta s-u'ehcrise ana or the Indion fiodic.''j. Pr^cti :-i ensrs
nntd
*» "? 7
attancing on Sbri M* CRamac-handi-an who uas under treatment
in l!6S,i-,,tc sd- in is t s r oath to I,in. f'e ua* furthrr
instructed '.hat if a thumb impression nf Sh,Ram«chandi.-an
is nut en lfv= nomination paper, this n.ay also bo at tes ted.
Throuch thase pet i t ions, the validity of nottir.aticn
of Shri .^KJch&ndren from AnrUpstti assembly constituency
ua o c ha 1 Is r. g c d« I t was con I e nd ad t ha t Sh, Ra ma c ha n d re n
had not -nads and subscribed a. valid oath, under
Constitution before an authorised per", on outside India
in *!K'..' York,, uhsra ha uaa under msdicsl treetmont. I t
uss ccntor.-ed th^t dirscticn of the Ccrrn issicn perriittting
Shri Rap-jchirdrsn to reke end subscribe oath outside
India pay bo dec.l'-red ultrfM'ires of tha Constitutio:;e
The case of tha oetit iener uris that the Electicn
Commission having issued a notification in general
terms could not issue a special•notification and that the
authorieaticn i'as for one of the Indian fiedical
Practifcicnsrs attending on ths f i r s t respunrient. Thersfore,
there uas no possibil i ty of tha Consular Agant exericising
that pousr hirnsslf.
The Hir.h Ccurt rejactcid ths above contsntions.
I t observed:-
"Hare i s a si tuation to uhich paragraph 2(d) ofth.? general noti.f icat i an applies, *Th£t has besncompiled uithc Even if i t i s to be held thatspecial' notification also applies, there ie nothingto sur; - -• s t the ex c iusi cn of po rn r, ra p h 2 (d) „ ThorGis f th::. refc-ia j every ju^tif ica ;;icn to iiold that theElect: en Con:, iss • on havirtr, in ex&rcice of i t sccnatit j t ional ptiucr iss-jhd nctif ica ;,iLn S.D.r.Vtd:.:t?:d i-8,"« 1968, i t ccuid not act contrary to i t ,by itr.-ci.no Ifi.^ cpeci.al natificatj.un« The ClnofcianCci"~;Li'.s: op if; cc-rtairlv bound by \:he coftiwlr.cti ri r ~- t i "n« T'.:ov~ rorc , r.y-n i;i tho nresrnc" r;f
Exx,P2 and P.3 paragraph 2(d) cf the notification5,0, 1111 dated 18,3.1963 u i l l be fully operative.''
X X X X X X XX XX
"The next contention of Plr.Ganapothy is that theauthorisation is to r-ns cf the Indian ivedicaiPractitioners attending or the f i rs t respondent,Uhan such uas ths instruction, there is nopossibility of ths Consular Agent himself axsreisinothat pounr, Tfiis stand ssons to bo not correct.Evan though the instruction may ba to authoriseor.s of thu Indian F.edical Practitioners, ths pouarof ths Consular Representative is net taken auay,Even othsruise, in ona sense i t £cul:i ba hs>ld chattha tslex messac;e fal ls unasr pa-cgraph 2(d) bacuusathat says ' dis.lematic cr consulaj: rcprEsent,?.tive o?India in the country •'her-? the candidate heppens to baor any person authorised by such diplonatic or consularreprosentativ-'o,' The 3anci'«'irE cf ths ;.sl3K liiojC^geis that ' the Corliss ion ir.r. tructs the Anibcssr. dor ofIndia or thr? Consulate G^narai cf India at Unu Yorkao ths caoo noy be to authorise ono of Indien f'sriicalPrcctiticnar stten:iirr on hie, to adrini? ter bhs os thor affirmation to Sh.sC.C-.Raix- S-.cr.dran. It i s ,therefore, possible to hold thct tho Co:r.nissicn uasmsrely referring to parcrrph 2(d)f tr.kan in thocontext of the earl ier uor-'ing cf tha talaXj andnot making n special authorisation, Hence cc;tclud3that the compliance uit.h paragraph 2(d) cf the .notification 3,0.1111 cJatsd 18*3.'. ?6Q is perfectlyl'3~r-1 and valid.
XX XX XX XX XX
•The pet i t ion uas dismissed uith costs vide High
Court order dated 17.12.1986,
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Durinr; the .-ncrttK nf fia vc!>, 1 QcS v 95 persons
UKTS difcCL'e VI fl«ri ursder sec t ion IDA e>f the
riG'T^oer^t;-: ti•: n of ths i t c c i e Acif"9E?1, fo;- fa;.Ii:r:''
t c It^dg? ^.h^i.v C:acour;zs vf c? l ec t ion pxpensys a t
all cr i / i ih in the time nnd/nr J.r> th;; mannsr reouii 'sd
by Iciui. AH U-esa peri.-ns cortGotrjd E ioc t i cns
t c the Legi3lE-:.iv"« As.scrpbIiBs rT \!arlr"js s t a t s s .
Thbir n£!Ks arid i ddressos ar?: civan in the f e l l cuing
pa <->:;;;.
Alx \;hc;3e psisonw UGIG cii;::uua .11 "led vide;
Coprrlssir n* s urosr riat^d ? r^,1i ;D3 f TheroTors,
t h e i r dis-ua j.? f: ca t ions ii.111 au tomat i ca l ly stonri
removed or; V.r^'DCI..
LIST CF PER5CHS DISQUALIFIED IK-iDER
5TATE: BIHAR ' " - DATE OF OISQUA LIFICA7rC?: :7.3.1988
lio« of aleotica As
do
« » * « « t »*« M» «M» 9Sb * » saw MM •*> M» »w* J « B !*»* ^A> *** *-*% torn ami v%» «ss» u^;, jg^g »*. M » «.«. t>»* -»» ^.*» »KW w « *m± ««« * • -«M hM» *»» m-*t wi
ie^lclativa Oortslituency Pi'ijKtau;, creasesA-sssabl;*1 ji9Q5 l i c i t , !«ac£3ur*T3.i> s o t lodged
Vil i s rauMrr;t: t* E.'
« da »
•.c;a.-» :;,••"a --......--i.
g» .< !> < » * » « »
S--'»o, P a r i i c u l - v s S.No. -xnd n-/-: i>':,:,c '•."." -"Mr of..? . : lioa^ort f o rof e l e c t i o n of co::siil.u<H:cy cf "f.-;; .,.•'.;; d id at o disqualification
1 « < - . J * - • • _ „ _ _ _ „ _ . _ _
i , General Election 5i--F<iric3rl>ad SIJ--. ."/... Jo::Jir,;3>i ' Fa i led to lodge"to Hrjryana . " I'-'307 ,v';.''.*.ra. Colony account of o loc t ionL e g i s l a t i v e V .anCabo.d^ expenses.AsEonbly, 1987. . . • .
2 . - d o - -do* ' Ghri Toi Pr.l, . . .H.'Co. R-^195,Vill , S a x ^ , -do™
• Ftirid-.'.l-ftd.
3* - d o - -do- ' Shri I';-vi:i-ier Kur^ar,H.IVJ. 201=S , Sector-9, - d o -
4« —do— " -do— S'h.i.-i J.p, Shpjt-aa,H.Xo. t 122>Cabwa Golouy, -do—F ex i d PJJ ad »
5 . —do— " -do— • . S:'i"i Suresh Kunar Bb^tia,rf.Xo, 5-xM/'85, N,I,T. ' . -do-
, , Faxidabad.
6 t —do— -52-Mc-v la • ' Shri A'd.l Kumar,Mcharajpur '99,Saxai Kh^cja,Goyal Bhavail -do-
Dis t t . FtLV.-id?.Lad(Ka.fyans.}.
7. -do- -do- Shr.i Rjslii Pal t
" . ' H.Xo. 292/'i9, Fsiridabad -do-. H^-yaria. ' ,
S. -do- -do- . Ch-.Rrij Lai Singh Bhati,• : . Vi l l , Aaipur.F.O. Xigac.i, -do-
Bis t t , Fuiridabad, (Haxye.na).
5** -do- . -do- Shri Surfir.ii Gb-aiid Garg,• : " . H.iSo. 43;3t\Sa Para Far an a, -do-
Pe.ridab;<d Shciiar , Hoxyana.
10, -do- -do- . , Shri Hazr-ri Lai Ecus hi k,; •• V i l l , Saliuyurc, -do-
Dis t t , i'p.xiIabad,Hai"yona»
11* -do- 56—Uathin 'Sliri No or Mohd. '-fevafcl;Vi l l , & P.O.. Giiralvsher, " Account not lodgedTeru IiatJ>.5.u, Dis t t . in t i a c and inFaridabadj Haryana. aar.niei- required by
'• • ' l av ,
T 2 , - d o - 53-Ballabgirh " Shi'i Bha«van Dcss , F a i l e d to lodge any330,Koliv'EO-a,Bailabgarh, account of e l e c t i o nD i s t t . FaridabadjHcryana. expenses ,
1 3 . - d o - - d o - Shri. I-fcho-'-h Chond&r.-. • . . 11.No. 12S; ¥ard ^o . 3S - d o -
B s. ]. i eh g r; r h, S' ar i d r.b ad , H o r y an a,
1 4 . -do- - d o - ' • Shri G-tish Si.aur A;;garv:ilt
II, I-fo. 2/'t 23,}>l;u'l;\tt Colony, - d o -
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STATS: HARYAMA
1 . 2.
•D2T£ VF DISQUALIFICATION*.?.3.198B
• • • ' 4 . . 5 .3.
15. General Election 67-Toshamto Haryana •LegislativeAssembly, 1937.
1 6 .
1 7 ,
2 1 ,
22 .
2 3 ,
2 4 .
. - d o -
nlo-
i a . -do-
1 9 .
20., -do-
54-Palval
-do-
-db-
—do —
Shri Dhararn Pal, 's/o Dani. Ram,Vil l . Dh ar anvas ,P.O. Dcvrala., Toh. &Dist t . Bhiwani, Haryana.
Shri Jagan Singh,Vil l . BhulwanajTeh.Palval,Distt, Faridabad.
Shri Babu Lai,Vil l . Sallagarh,Teh. Palvai ,Distt . Faridabad.
Shri Munni Lai,Vil l . ,Ulahpur,Teb..PalwalfDistt . Paridabad.
Failed to lodgesmy account ofelect ion expenses.
—do~
• SbxiR/o 4, Maria Colony, PaDist t . Paridabad.
- d o -
- d o -
55-&asanpur(SC): Shri Kishori Lai,Vi l l . & P.O. Manpxir,TeIi. Hcthin,—do-
'" Dist t . Faridabad, Haryana.
.(1.0 •
•ao -
-do-
- - ( ! • > -
• • - J . O -
Shr i Tota Ran,Babr i Mohalla ,Hodal , _ —do-D i s t t . Fa r idabad , Haryaaa s
Shr i Phul _8ingh,V i l l . & P.O. Bamla, ' - d o -Teh. & D i s t t . Bhiwani .
Shr i Mangat,V i l l , & P.O. Bond Kalan, - d o -Toh-,. Chorkhi Dadzi,"
' D i s t t , Bhivani , Haryattao
S h r i Matadeen,V i l l . & P.O. Sanvar , ~ d o -D i s t t . Bhiwani, Hary'ana3
Shr i Eacip-al Singh.,Vi l l . fe P. 0. Pren Nag.ar, - d o -Teh. & D i s t t , -Bhiwp»ni ,
Sbri Gian Parkash,T i l l . & P.O. Kirali,Teh;Distt , Bhivoni. Haxyan.a»
Shri Daya Kishan,iMohalla Rao Chorkhi DadrlDist t . Bhivani.
-do-
S.hr.1 Dc.yaiD.ad,Vill. & P.O. Dh.--.ni Phogat,
.'Coh, Dadri, Bistt, Bhivani.- d o -
t :•' J C..". TI > " ; ? » ?• - 1 :'•' ii 2
2 S , r ^ , » 3 .licti ' j .-i 64-I><xdri ' t^ri 1.:.; ?r..l 3 Pai loct to lodge_t . , j > : ! ' . , Co .'•'.0. J"i:J.:;•&'.'•;. s n y a c c o u n t of
, i i t r , v . ' Ttru. j;.:.ir;.; Pls;tt.5l.';uv?e.ni eicot: ot ox^.'iH
j.£ t.i' , 19^7. .
3 O J —do— 66.Bhiwa,;ii S:-..--.. C,j:.v;.'l"' ?.J-."tt-f
Jii'iviv..-:, Il;.ry.-ir;a,
3 1 , - d o - - d o - SI ' i i -icvoJi Chaiid £':-.fni.-itK.ICo, 6 6 . V i l l , £ T'.O.Mauabru, - d o -
• Bit-it,» Bhi'rani fHpxyana.
32» —do- - d o - Shrx J ; ':a.'i tais,H, Xo« ^5fNie,v' R-j-vA I>as Maadir5 - do -
•• ' Ehiv,uc., H.-.iyM.ru
3 3 . - d o - ' -do- Sb^'i I;urli uhar»337/0 ...'ivisLr.a Coio:>yf - d o -
. i i j H-.vi.-ya.ia,.
34» —do- -do - Shri J>,ai.'orJi Singh Yadav,• . . V i i l , & P.O. Kuppai'h, -do-
D i s t t . Bi.iiviiiii, Haiyaaa.
35, —do— - d o - . Shri Sher Piii^h,
3 6 . -do- -do- Shri Subb.ash, •Chi-jldion Ki Dhajai, f-hivani. --do-
3 7 , —do— 68--Lohaxu Shri Ja."ttr.u,
. . . • . l)isU.'.'a-ilvanir"H^y''-naIi" '•'
3R-. -do— - - d o - Shri Purusl'.o ttam Lai,; . V i l l . ft P.O. Loharu, - d o -
D i a t t , Bhiv.'cni; i'ary
-do - 63-Eadhra Shr y
. • Vi l l . k P.O. Java,Teh,:Dsdri, -do-
4 O , - d o - - d o - S h r i M n j ,V i l l . K b o r d a , P . O . i r J'u N c g a r , - d e - -Teh. Dadrif I/istt. Ehivaai,
4-to —do— .-do-- ' Sfci'i Haghbir S i n g h ,. . V i l l . i>, P.O. O'hoju Kalan, -do~
Dis'.ttr Bhiwa.iji, fiai"yf,ria<.
42,, —do- -do- . Shri Han Singh,S/o Balu Harnj V i l l , £-. P>, 0. ~to~Jhoju Kalaiv, Toi;.. Dadi-ip
.. • . D i s t t . Bhivar-ij Hft.rya.na.
43» - d o - -do - Shri Bubo Singh,V i l l . & P.O., Ch;iadwas, '"" -do--Xch« Dadri , I'i.Tit. PJiivwai.
ST.-ME: f-iAHYAN/V
1 . 2.
DATE DF D ISQUALIF ICATION:? . 3.. 1928
4 . J z
44. General Election 76-Tohanato Haryana: • •• •Legislat iveAssembly,}987.
4 5 .
4 6 .
51
5 2 .
5 3 .
56.
37.
58.
—do—
- d o -
-do-
- d o -
47.
4 8 .
4 9 .
5 0 .
, — d o — •
-do-
-do- .
-do-
-do-
-do-
. -do-
-do-
- d o - .
54, -do- ,
55. • -do-
- d o -
—do—
—do—
- d p -
-do-
32—Salanaur
7-1-Hissar
-do-
-do- : '
Shri Jyo-H Ram,Near Balmiki MP-THI-IT-;Tohana, D i s t t , HissaX.
Failed to lodger,.ny account o.Ceiec t i j
Shri B-iaarai Bass,"vill. Indachhoi, -do—Dis t t . Hissar, Hcxyaaa.
Shri .Mohindor o. VJ
Vaxd No, 9, 'i'onaiiti, -i-B i s t t . H i s s _ , •' •_<.„•., .,.
Shri Ranjha Ham,Vi l l . Bhuna, Dis t t , Hissar, —do-
Shri Sadhey Shyam,pur an i S a b j i MaiiC. , ••.•^*av
Dis i t , Hissar, Haryana. .
Sax-i Ham Singh,V i l l . Nangthla, D i s t t . Hissnr. - ^ - -
Shri Vakil Chaad,Vard No. 13, Tohana, . - i o -Distt, Hissar, Haryana.
Shri BhagwanVill. Amcni,
Account not 1<in the mann..Shri Manga Bam,
V i l l . KarJiri, Dis t t . Hissar.
Shri 3aldev, Failed to Jo '189,Singhpura EaloXi, &nv prof«n.t oP.O. Singhpura Gurukul, execvxun UAKDist-f., Rohtak, Haryana.
Shri Ex-ishan ,s/o Anir Chand,•M/S P.-i3ha Svami Flour Ki l l .Gujrcn Parao,
Shri J i t a Singh,• 20/28f Govin-I Nagaf,
S h r i P n ! ; - - ; .-. • i - - - - ...Plot K_ . ::Beaird Government High School,
ar, Haryana, ' "
- d o -
521., Mahabir Galoay, Hissar,
Sunar,
-do—
hp.gswci Gate, Hissf"!1*
- 0 3
013 ^-'ALirI CP. TI p[^ 7. 3 ,
;«':>» Dejrjral E lec t ion 74—Hissar Shri EaKesb. Mohan, • Fa i l ed to lodgeto rlnry^oa U.No. 31o/i3 ^ i s t t . K i s p d r . any'account oi"L--i-'j s 1 i t ivc e l e c t i o n oxpo;^.isssn.bly ,1987.
•:0«. -do-- - d e - Sliri Ra.i TunrJ.1,Moh. Dogran, H.No. 182/14, - d o -
: . ' Near i^il Tolian, Bistt. liissar.
fct . —uo— - d o — Shri Voc Prakash,S/o Git a Re."i, HaNo.262-Af - d o -Op p . Dnyanend Hosts 1> Hissai ' . .
€•2., - d o - • - do - Sl;ri Shiv Kumai'., ' . •487, Lii'-^cur .Colony, - d o -ll.A.U. liiss&r.
63« —do— - d o — Sm-i Sat ish Bhatia,Y i l l . Tal-^andi Kana, vdc—B i s t t . & Toh, I i issar .
6 - , . - d « - 76-Tohona Shri J&r.go Ecxi, ^ ^ ^ h ^ f a a f . S ^ 0
Vi.jl, Gajuwaln., D i s t t . Hiss ar , r tquii'ed by l av ,
6 5*. • • • d o - 84-Babwali Skri ICalu Rom, •. Pel led t o lodgeV:Q1. Jiaaf'Jrn Bishnoia, «ny account ofToll. Dabif&li- liis'fct.Siroft-i , e l e c t i o n cxpansag.
—do— ' —do— Snri GovaTdhp.a Tass: VaXt No. 5,H.No. IT7, M-ndi, -do-
Dabvali, E is t t . Pirsa .
—do— . - d o - . SV.ri Sux-jii '..era,><;. a I.'o. 11, K.lCu. 113,Mandi, - d o -Dabvali, B i s t t e S'irsa.
S.No, Po.ri/iculars S.No, and aao Naiuts and address Reason forof election of constituency of the candidate disqudificc'tirin
i'~ ~ i " " y-* 111 r isi r z... 111 i4i i ~ 1 1 r 11115~. 1 1 1 11 . General Elect ion 4S-Doda Siiri Daleep Kvincr Sli?J:ma Fai led t o lod-:o
to Jar.rau & Kashmir Il/o Bhadervah, anj* accountLegis la t ive B i s t t , Doda, (J&li). of e lec t ionAssccbly,19f>7. expenses.
2 . - do - 49-Iiarabr;i Shri Jog Eaj ,B/O Batote , -do -D i s t t . Doda (.T&K).
3* - J o - -do- Shri AjjBj Ahmad,R./ O B ai o t e , —do --J j i s t t , I*odnf ( J&K).
5TATE: KERALA DATE i f i iI2 QUA L I F I C H T ICNs? .Z,19G62TF0I P a r t i c u l a r ' s ""STRoTanB N~r-e"~f ~~*~ " * '
of election nams oc cor'te-tina -Reasons forconstituency r?nrM dates disquali ficat-
u_r_ , ' j-2n
1 2 3 4 5
;i General Election Jose Man j a i l , Account notto the Kerala _ k. . , , , . , Maniali hbuse, lodged atLegislative 60-Koaaicara SvAh Thoravu^ J
a l iAssembly- 1987 Near Kappela.,..
P-0. Pudykkad. ,TrichurList riot-Kerala.
2 -do- 6G -Ankamali G.GjpimchAnjKrishnavilasam,Paduveouram P.O. ,Ernakulem Distr ic t , ~ °"*Kerala.
,3 -do- -do- M .P.Reghavan,Moreppilly Hjuse, . ' .Kannimangalam, I ee-l -<JO~
• .. . P.O., Kerala.v,4, ~do- -do- W.T. Tn
'5 . -do- 75-Trippunitfiur«; K^X'imsr.K'jrgckada
Tj'/« Centre, Ksk'^aaad P «O*S ~<to—Cc^ hi iv-30— Kerol."5*
'6. -do- 7i-Alwoyo J.'i.H. Mat Dharan4 Account rot
7 , -do- 79-Piravom- Hai^a Jacob, Valakjcettil-. V-.rAi.Hthakkarariad P^J", -do-
8. -do- 80-Muvc>ttupuzha . i-.'r'Hhss• - ,v " . o f t k k
^uvjttupuz , 4;Districtj Kerala*
STATE: UTTAR PRADESH D!kTZ ~:F - I S ;^.-LIT ICVPI J t i ;? . 3 , 1Q35S«ivoo P a r t i c u l a r s S4.Ivc;<,& Ik^e of ieriG 6: a d d r e s s fleas on of-
of election. Const!tusney. of the conc-' :zinc: disauali-C£.:-;:Md--' t o . , float!on.
» General irLection 216-Hehnagar i:ljri I'unni Lai., ..mailed toto the U.P. (SC) 7i!U.., .Has o::.;^r; Ioclg3 anyLegislative' ?-O- -^it-fnorrxir; - acoc^int ofAssembly, 1985. • ->-"•-'- J^zo^^.rh} election
ST<\TE; 'JE3T BENGAL "" " ^ - t F D I S U ' J H LI r .•L--. I 1 - . - ; ^ •-> < - •
S . P a r t i c u l a r s of 3.N0.-5: llcr:ie .TJo ti 4 Address o f }l-Z'ic <y^~NO, e lect ion p(f As5g."l:j:~_ Counts s t i ng ' " " for~d:\
uO-.ii-'^utn...^ Candidatc fviai.—!
" "" " ~ ^* ' i
1. General' election 13-Fals.kata Shri o^dananda Failedt t ( ) t
. General' election 13-Fals.katato West,Bengal (SG) . ., g () . . Hov .L e £; 1 s ...a "G iv e Iva j_a 0 a za ,Ass_rfo>» . 1987 . . O S T l
Hov . to iocfeva ja 0 a zP.O, SaTl^arr. • " - i ^ rDx.?t. u, j a l p a i g u r - , t->">:
e •V/cst Bengal, ' i"f th^>
r c era i rod'y "Lav;,
2- -• do - 130-E-iatpara ohri KrishnanaRd Fai ledTiv/ari, to lod-^epO . Hast Gnosh-oara theRoad, P ,O..Jaga'tdal accour/cNorth 2!f..pa.rgarias, in theWest Bengal-. manner
requiredby- La-.
3 * - d o - -I'+O-Cossiryar SSiri' Sanir Knna r p n n - -P?U_ " ' —- l ' i
5 / A , ' D £ ' . ' B_O_1 t o -=Cl-2Behari S t r e e t , " ^Calcutta-5 , accountVfe t P.en?'-r! • °^'
exectdonexpenses,
lr* - d o ~ 1^3-Jorasar.ko Shri Rahatulla 'Khan, ^ d c _^ -? K ? i u t o l a Lane.Caicutta.-73 ,West Bengal,
? * " d ° - 1^-Barabazar Shri Saij^ N ^ 3 v , , "•i-aJT;ia, ..dC-9 S Cotton Street,Calcutta.-? , 'West Bengal.
^ Gopal> * ; ; ; ' . - a o -•-'0 , iriiren thar3arani, Calcutta-12 ,Wesi; Bengal.
Contd . , , ,
STATE:: UEST BENGAL
T "" ~ ~ ~2 IDATE CF DISQUALIFICATION:?.3.1288
I Z Z 1 Z Z tt Z Z Z Z Z Z Z - I J Z ZC-aneral olcction iU-5-Bowbasarto vjest BengalLegislativeAssenbly , 198?
3hri Anil KunarSen,15"-G, Akmr Tatta any
. Lanej Calcistta-12 }West'Bengal.
J< a l i e n .t o XcdKC
election
1 0 .
1 1 .
- do. -
- do -
-cio-
- do -
do -
- do -
Sh r i A sh ok Ch ak rabo rfc.r,8-3j Neogy pxiktir -B;G Lane,Calcutta-1^jVJest Bengali
Shri Sa+A'a Dev Kishra^5/2. Falgun Ais Lane,Galcatta-12, - -West Bengal,
Taltola (SG) Sh r i Sadh anan da Ih-a siW 3 , Fulir. KhatlekRoad; Galcut-fca,-1?.West Bengal, o -
- do - Shri Paban pand i t .63, Bancharar.: A.VCUT»Lane, p i s t t . CalcuttaCalcutta-12, •West Bengal,
.—1. ,0—
During the rorv:>. 3f V'> •;• -h, :; iTC, the L: D iv-i S s i c;r
receiver! i n t i n a t i ' " " abcut cJIs:.;'-sc 1 r>f A a Jec^ icn
p e t i t i o n s in ths vt.'ri^us Hi oh Cnuris^ I n t l "a t i on
regard ing f i l i n g 2 rnore anc^alo in K.l&cticn r-nivLer
uas a l s o receiveo fr^'-1 the S'.'pr-;;^ Cauri^
Oatf^iis of e i K c t i ' n p a b i t i o n s fil*:d f (^Dprs^s
cf ana psndinu in tl"?3 Higli Courts afsJ «p;::.'^'.;J ir. the
Supreme Court f oilo^infj (a) Gfinex::.1 E l ec t ion tv t h s
L e q i s i a t i v e AsaGmblies held in 1^77~?9p(b) Conors 1
E lec t i on to the House; uf tt.3 People ,1980. (c) General
Cj.actions to the LQqis is tiur? AsG rr;;: l i e s {ISSi) f
(d) Gen?ral E lec t ion to th? L e g i s l a t i v e Ars.-^-h I5.r?. 519B3«
(o) Gcnaral e l e c t i o n tc. ths House cf tha P c c - l e , 1934--S5,
( f )Genera l E l e c t i o n s to the Lec is l i - t iyc Asst-ili: i s a s 1 9BA,
(g)Geners ! E i sc t i c ns t o tho Lea i^ i t t i ve AsssrnbliRSs 'i3C5
&nd (h)Genaral E i s c t i c ns to ths L e g i s l a t i v e Ac;s snibi ies ,
1927 a rc furnished in the, n ins s ta tsrnents (I to I A ) «
annexed.
As on J I «3.oS, 2Ci3 e l e c t i o n Doti t i r jns and 94 appea ls
tsro pending it; va r ious high Courts and Supreme Ccurt of
India r e s p e c t i v e l y . A s t a t ement (f3ocx) shoving the
pci-j od for i:hdch those e l e c t i o n po t i t i cn r i :'.p, d i f ferc-nt
High Courts and appea ls in the 3up.rcirri? Ccurt a r c pend.irfj
if: a Inn annc-xeri.
s;rATCPIENT __i
[Jiuriber of election _petitions filcdj JiL JlPPSJUijEUj! Pending in the
(As on 3T«3>1938 ) .
'S ."No . 'I'JaV.s Vf Sta te / ' X-^^^^le;^^^Union Filad^ ^ pippesed^ o^ _ ^ ponding F.ife.d. ..^,\sS,°3J?Si -5.C 1.7 Pe"nr)ingT e r r i t o r y . Upt'6''"t'hV "D'u'rTng* Tot"al 'lip to "the""" DurTiTcf Total
and of the end of the
Z1'"''''" "X" Z ' Z '11 ZKl a s t month month. l ^ s i nionth month
Z Z A Z Z Z 5Z I " 1 S I XI Z Z Z 1 Z 9 I I'1'o Z1 ,Andhra P r a d e s h ( 1 9 7 3 ) 21 21 - 21 - . 6- 6 - 62,Assam (197S) 9 9 _ g _ 3 3 _ 3
3 i h a r { ! 9 7 7 ) 3 1 - 3 1 - 3 1 - 6 6P • o4.Haryana (19 7 7) 7 7 - 7 - 2 2 - 2S.Hiniachai Pradesh (1977) 5 5 ' - 5 - ' - - _ _6.3ammu i Kashmir (1977) 19 19 - 19 - 4 4 - 4V.Karrvv^aka (1978) 74 74 74 4 4 48 . K e r a l a ( i 9 7 ? ) 19 19 - 19 - - 6 6 6g.f'iadhya Pradesh (1977) 23 28 - 28 6 6 GiC:. . :v-hcrashtro ( 1 9 7 8 ; 13 13 - 13 - 2 2 211.fv3gholaya (1976) 1 1 - 1 _ _ _12 .Nagyland (1978) 9 9 - 9 - 1 1 1l 3 . 0 r . i s a a (1977) . 6 S - - 6 1 1 114.Fun job (1977) 16 16 16 10 10 - 10iS.Rajasthc-'.n (1977) 18 18 - 18 4 4 416.^.i\'.'<in\ ( 1 9 7 9 ) ' 2 - 2 « 2 « - - - »•i?wi'; . : , i i l N.-.rij ( i S 7 ? ) iJ B • 8 5 5 - 5I 6 , u ^ : - r pL-cdash ( 1 9 7 7 ) 3 ? 37 » 3 ? 9 , 7 ?I 9 . ! j o : i t S ^ n n a i ( 1 9 V 7 ) 1 1 - 1 -
iitilS: A... T. IU JP -D'/Sli2 T 1 » 0 3 1 ; - , i ( 1 9 7 7 ) 4 4 • " * • > • • . ! » . - . ». «.
i ;• •.-.• i;-:'-.n7'""'"r":ii-fc^":;^r'' •G".I*"*tT:rrr.'.?r.fi7 ""*"*"T^r"?--^'^^''^tlatUinood"tnU.'i'V2"0/2 .,1987 .
- 41 -
GENERAL ELECTION TO TMC LOK SA8HA, 1900
j,-vT- J? * .2.~..e.?A~J:L f ,iiiijh Courts and appeals in tha Supreme Court.
(As ^n^r^C 19CG }
'3."NO. Kama of S t a t e / Elect ion P e t i t i o n s in tha TTioh Court?. A*op_oa 1 s*"in ~th'a ~Su"Jr'cUnion Tiled Disposed of _ Jp&ndi.na Fi-tsd Dispos~'rj"b**f" "T e r r i t o r y . UpVci'VhV * * ljVrXny*"'f ut"ai u'ptcT "tlfo * *"E'tTrTH
end of the end of too__ l a s t , month month. __ __ _las_fc _rnonth month
'"X" "' "" " 2 "* "' "' '" "" '"" '" ' ' "" " ' '" " ' " " '§ " f "'*
•} , Ardhr., Pradssh2, Gihsr' '
4 . niinachsl PrsdoshG. Moryana£. J -^-HJ ft Kashmir7. :/•::-par.oka '
•j 1 .Cr 1 3j- a'2 ,(-:a j a s th sn13 , f <-mi.L K adu
• 14. fr ioura1D. lit t a r Prade
1 £ iij LL Ii: IJ£5i£§j,1? .. AI' u.i acni'i Pradesh' iG .Da lh i1y„Dadra L M ng3r H a v a l i
1142112
1
146•1
2
2• 42
121
111
2111114612
213
2
12
t
11211
46>!!
212
132121
111T.
-
112
To t a l : 54
O G r a n t a d S t a t o h a o d u . s . f . 2 0 . 2 . 1 9 8 7 ,
C£W£f?/!L EjL£ CTifir,SJ
c f s iRct- l un Ji!x9ii Courts and apjpeals .in tha Supreme Cour^t
pending i n the
(As on'31 J3*'.1988 ) •
Ka'rno of "StateY" "Ele'ctiorr PetTtio'ns i'ri the Hiafh^CouFtV.'AjDp'oa'iV'i'n "the" "SupVenie "CoUrT,.UnionTerritory,
1 .
2 .
3 *
A. '
5 ,
6 .
7 .
8 .
9 .
1 0 .
i i .* •) 2 .
a 13.
1 4 .
BJ.harGujar nfc
K a r si a
i-iaohya Pradesh'
ri an ip ui:
Maharashtra
Or issa
Punjab
3 a i a s t! i an
Tsrnil Nadu
Ut tar Pradesh
Arunachol Pratiash
Go a 5 D am an A D i u
Pondichorry
TOTAL:
FilGd_ r _ a _ t p_icfjpsed^ p f PendingUpto" ' t ha ' ' "*'~ iDurTrig" Tot'a 1end o f thel a s t month it ionth.
" " • 7 " " " " " " ' / , ' • • * " " - " c ™ "' <r"~' ni—'
39
5
8
23
4
16
4
02
2 0
17
29
1
.2
1
28
4
8
23
4
16
4
41
18
17
27
1
2
1
211 194
^tshood u..e,i\ 20 .2 .1987 .a g r r n t a d s ta tehood w . s , " . 30 .5 .1987 ,
28
4
S
2 3
4
16
4
41
18
17
27
1
2
1
11
1
-
-
-
-
1
2
-
2
-
—
194 17
Fi 1 ed_ JUJpto'end o
_ l a s t*8 ' 9
4
1
2
5
1
2
3
1
2
5
1
1
the ~~fmoj-itb
d o fDuringthamonth
-
-
-
-
totel
3
1
2
5
1
1
Pending
11
11
S
1
47
10
9
1
10
9
1
42
5TATEf1ENT-IV
(As on 3 i c S > . i 9 G 8 ) «
• 3..\io. 'f'ia'rnu "o'P Sta ' tV/" X^^^'-X^rCi^^A^A^ri^'X^-X1^.^^^ '"h''i. S'uJl1:™11' 'CcUnion Filed_, _ _, PA^R.0.3eA J3 ' ' *" " "?^rTdi/Tg f ^ W ..j^ijijj^qeer_o f" 'J_ ~ "_>"T e r r i t o r y . Up'tcT'the" O"u'r*iTrn"'Tcv;c"'ir~" Lrp"t"o' 'tho" " ~~'d'urCr.g 'i'JTcS
end of t h s • end of biicjl a t i t nnnnt-.h inonhh-___ ' __ __ljif!jl JI!np"':n month
~ss'. ~. "\ ~?~. "* r.' iL 'i ~i 'I-C 'i...? .„ I.'!." 3 Z " „ rc"" "7"" ." r"? 9 2 "io"" ""IT1. Himachal Pradesh 12 12 - 12 5 5 S
2 , Hrrcyana 27 27 • - 27 - 17 17 - . \1
7,. Kerala 15 14 - 14 1 4 4 - 4
4. Us st Bengal 0 8 - _ 8 - - _ « .
5. f\'jB-jaland 4 3 3 1 2 2 - 2
TOTAL; 56 64 - G4 2 28 28 28
- 4'4; ~
GEN f, F?AL_ Z L£g J I 0 N :i_ _TQ _ TH g_ J .E G IS L A TI VI ASS E j*l Bl. I E 5 , 1983
(As on .an; ,3^983 ) .
s . N O . fv-j.•-.<-- of stats/' >AGiii-X'iP.J^".tT.t.C?ii3^Xd.^Ji€.J " i SUnion. FiIcG'___^ Oibp*osVd o*f" *" _ ""jPtTncTi rig " Fxlad Dij;"pase3^pf_Territory* • L'pto"""the "DurTrig* "Totai . Upto" thV DtTr'i ngtotaL
end of the end of the_^ lost ; innn-hii rncmth. . • l a s t mnrith month
IX' . " ''"2" I'"" 71 'I IIIC 'I Z ':i 711115._ 1 1 HC ~ 7X7111 5 7. _ ...9_ I _ Hip" !I Zu1. Andhra Pradesh 39 . 39 - 39 - H 5 - 9
2 . . A s s am 6 6 — 6 — - - T -
3 . 3a;nrnu & Kashmir 76 48 - 48 28 1 1 1
4. Karnsbaka 22 22 - 22 4 3 35. Hag hoi ay a 5 5 - 5 - - - - « .
6 . T r i p u r a 4 , 4 « 4 «• - - - -
7 . D 3 i h i M 1 4 * 1 4 « 1 1 - 1
TOTAL: 1 6 6 1 3 8 . 1 3 8 2 8 2 0 1 4 - 1 4
CTXH N ^ r « 5
fLlpd, c'isnosocl^ ja f, ''sncling ;i_n fc
S.Y'o. 'fjarr.o of State/*UnionTer r i to ry .
(Acs o n 31 ,,3;». ",QBii } *
, , , ijl jbjK) Ji^llJ^B^Xi'^^P^A^^XD.'^l^ fuJTr mra cVitFiled Disposed of "Ponditig f i l e d O'i.spo.s"sdT uf~ _ " " J-
Up't'ci" YhV Qli'rTricTTbt'aT ' Lfp'tu "the* * ' "OlIrTng totaland of tha end of the
r t
3 T1 .2 .3 .* • * • #
; • . #
5 ,
e.9 .101112
14i-i'v
1617
AnAs:3IGvl i E
KaKeMa
.f ' la
.Or,p,j
dhrsamhar•'i nr;; y ^
r n ar a ld h yh ar1 3 5
rsiaJlttsr. Ue
_....-•. I . ; . :.Da, 0 3
3 t
U s hdr aI h i
n Preds
st :
n a,'c Kash
t £..;k 3aa Precisiashtr aab
Pr ade sBep.o a lF'RITORIao^eep
i s h
3h
1 ' V
E 3 j
& Nagar Hovsii
52522211221255
t
1
41212•",
1
11„
13O
113
412
21-12
1i
3
11
TOTAL: 54 3 6
32
13
36 16 14 9
- 46 -
GENERAL .ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLIES, 1984
j_3j:^^^ psndi_nfj_in thes and appeals in ths Suprema Court.
3. No* f-iana of St.ato/" X^XE^v^-^J^.fcX^X^ "fllF "Sup'r'eraa' TTUnion Filod_ ^ _ p^s^osed jj_f _* "^Pondii.'g fxlea^ ^p,^T°Ji^"pX''ll'.'T a r r i t o r y . UpVo' VhV ' *'"Du'rTng'"Totfil *Up*t*o "tti'o DiJrTrTg f/b
(As or, 3r..lvi988 )•
' ' ' TTolTrT
rTg f/and of the • end of thel a s t m~>rvhh. mo_nth_.: . l a s t month month
"I1""".'"". ~2.- " '.". Z Z Z I3I Z Z Yi Z ... 1" Z5Z _. Z I s ! ~ ZXZ Z I I I S r I I 9 I Z "1 3"°" 'I I1 i I ~i1 . Tamil Nadu 5 4 1 S • * " ' 2 - - - 2
2 , i'lar.ipur 4 1 — 1 3 - - - _ _
*•» 3 . Arunachal Pradesh 1 1 ~ 1 - 1 - «. - •{
Q 4* Go o,0amen i Diu 1 1 - 1 - - - -
•«•* 5, nizaram 1 1 - 1 „ - - - _ ^
TOTALS 12 8 ' I 9 3 3 3
S^-j-Sik £ i-SHJ Sis JS.«J»iL. l^ill .§!-J
(As on .5n,3V 1986 ) •
Union F i l e d ' __ Disposed o f * " " " _J?ending FiJ-e.d Divsj5o_sj3cTJlC - . . . . J ^T e r r i t o r y . Up't'o" YhV " DurTng*"Tb't'a 1 Upto" the Dur ing Total
end o f tho end o f ths
" - ] " " ~ "" ~"2 * " "" ' ' '"" "~3~" •* '• 'g "2 ~ "5" ~ *"* ~~Q -JJ"' ~ ' ~>3 ~~ ~ "~9~ " " "I'n? """ ' " i T ~* "~i"2
1 . Andhra Pradesh 17 17 - • - j ? - e 2 - 2 6
2« Assam 4 1 _ 1 3 1 1 -. i - •
3 . 3 ihar 45 -55 «- 16 29 2 - - - 2
4. Gujarat 9 6 - 6 3 1 - - • _ 7
5. Himachal Pradesh 12 12 - 12 0 2 . ~ 2 &
6 . Kamataka 26 19 - 19 7 • 3 - . ~ - 3
7. Maharashtra 2 6 22 - 22 4 9 2 - 2 7
8 . Madhya Pradesh 54 47 ~ 47 7 2.$ - 2 ?
9 . Or iasa 8 8 ~ 8 - 2 - - „ . 2
10. Pun jab 12 10 - . 10 2 .« „
11.ReJE3thap. 24 15 -j r g 8 7 2 2 5
12.S ikk im 2 2 ' - 2 ~ 1 1
i 3 . U t t a r Pradesh 74 40 2" 42 32 15 2 - 2 13
14.Pond ichor ry i - | _ • ] „ « . „ _ ,.
TCTALr 314 ' 2 1 6 3 219 g'S ?S" 11 - 11 67
\
- .48
M_fl.l-. £.£_P.TI0NS TP_ TH£„ i£ GISLATIVC iA3:j£r'l3|l.IE_Sj 19B7
(As on 73-';, 3 > 1938 ) *
3 c No, ,f\!3fno '3 f Sta^H/^ X^l?AC^O..J..^JXll. A^. .Xl--Hli t iA3AS I^P^.JS\Xn J t is yp _ o u r t ^Union TiJed Dispusod of '* __ f^cndirig F'ilad D i sp o self o {''2 _ """PciTuT e r r i t o r y . Upto the '^Oli'/ing'Total Upto tne During^Tbta.l
one! of the . end of thal a o t mr>rH;.h mop!;h». . l a s t mnnth month
'ic... "**. "x~ zzz'i z 'yz z z. •? 111" 115.11 .T r e 1 zxi z 1 - 21119~ 1 - i is 'i l u 1 i i
1, Hcsryana 13 2 "" ^ ^ "* "" _ - _2» ;i;im,-,,u i Xagiuir 21 1 - 1 20 - -
1? '|. •"- 13 4 X - 2irals
TO TA Li 51 fo V. IS 3S
37A7u"£ ; :T 5K0'JI!\G PE^ICOS PJr? WHICH ELECTIONPcTITiQi ' iS IM THE HIGH CGURT5 A?: D APPEALS IKTHE SUFnC;-.£ COURT OF If 'DIA rt,\£ PENDING.
(As on s
77".~_«- f *
5 . -
9 . .t *
1 1 . '
i s l14. 'is.:16.=1 7 - -
19 "~
2 1 . .2 2 . -
j r
.- -.?;!= i Pr adJsh
. u. r 1 - •
- iJ T adur - • • L I c
_ -r Pradesh5 - T Bengal
2 ,
--
120
4.
—„
—
—
—
—
3_.__.li_..G -— -1-
1„ -
*? at*
2=1
-...4 - •
I "...4'
5 .
-31
3
>
I
(4
i33
„
—
7%
'8
_3 2
'A
3 . 5_
5* •-:. —t Daasrs & Diu —6» C ;••-'. a & ft?.gar H a v e l i -7. ^ . ; ' Jichorrv -
2
7. ::-icrrf. Pradesh - *
*«• E r s r s t a d S t a i s h o o d u . a . f . 2 0 . 2 , 1 9 0 7 ,m fcs g r o r . t e d S t a t e h o o d u . e . f . 3 0 . 5 . 1 9 8 7 .
-Kaiiie :•"' s t s t s / LsSs than lia tuaen Sstuean Between Due::Jr;if:r< Terri tory J i'JLSJ; . JZ2.~J!BJ1.S ?r^JlLl-_2ziLXfJ'.:,
h ] l ? Q K ? " ~ ^ " ' H^ si* H'-* ""'ac"*" HC~i • j L ^ l £ • 1 9 *3 _
2 14- 1
29
1
12
TOTAL: 35 ?4 ~ 4 ' S? 10 « ,11 52 8~
- 50
At ths end of flarch,1988, there was no•" r
vacancy in the Council of Statas. There uaro 15
vncanciss in the House of ths People and 20 vacancies
in the dif ferent Legislative Assemblies. Tnese vacancies
uo net incluuo 2 vacancies arising out of expulsion
of the members of Pcnoicherry Le.-jislativs Assembly*
Tnero uere 102 vacancies in ths Legis.lativQ Councils
of different States*
Details of the vacancies are shown in ths
2nnexure(Annsxure-l). uetei ls of elections declared
void by the concerned High Courts and Cases of
Qxpulsions/aisquaiif ications pnrrJing in the. iiigh Courtc/Suprsme
Court are shoun in tns An-nexuro-II.
AND Ltbi;
U n i crt I s r;,,<:: of 3j. ^, L J i i).
tate/ Cos.;Tot
ncilA I
o r '•\'ai
c"
'As
Hatfts
"T
on 3.Ti
LsriTota
' • I T - ,
1
968)
tivo Councilcant.
1.Anohre Frsdesh2».--rt?H3chal Pradssh
4*31 ''
18
22
1
9S 34
5 * HI ca c r-.a 1 P r a d e s h9 e Da rarr-ufe Kss hrci r
is. t aks
12.f:adhya Pradssh
ix>9 f'lizor arn
18,Crissa19. Punjab2G.Raissthan21.SIk':ifit22.Tamil Nadu2'S* Trinura24»Uttar Pradesh
34
129
1619
11
1
10
101
1E3416
3563
78
108
621
1, A r*da n& n i U „ I s 1? nda2.Cha r .din-3rh3 .Dsdra & K.Havsli
5 c Porsdi c he r r yi: Din
3M
1
233 381* 102
CeCasya.}. vacancies,R=lfscancles due to retirement*NBiDstail& ef vscancias ev& shown in the cnclossd statement
* Total ssEts includo numbers nominated by Governor ccncsrnso',
•52 •-
TOTAL NUN3£K OF 3£AT5 IK THE HOUSE OF THE P£O PL£
(As on 3i ; ,3 :r t1988 )
S".i
1
1 .2 ,3 .
5 .5 .7 .3 .9 .in111213141 516171S192 02122232 42 5
1 .n/. 9
3 .4«5 ,
5 .7 ,
io* Name of State/ ____
. ?.
Andhra PradsshHX^unachal PradsshAssam
•3iharGujaratGo aHsryanaHimachal PradeshDarrimu L Kashmir
,Karnata!<a,l(3r a.! a.Pladhya Pradash.Maharashtrao iv"i an i p m:sMaqhalcya, Mizor an;,% agaland.0r.is3s.Punjab. i. ;5 j -~u 3 u n s..n
,3 ikk I.m• Tamil i.'adu. Tr i.p ur a.Ut tar Pradaih.Wsst Bengal
An d am an & ft , I sla n 6 sChandig arhC-uiian 'h Diu"D sdr a 1 N ag ar H auel iDolhi
Pon.uisharry
3»
422
145426
210
46
23204043
2211
211325
139
285.42
111
1711
the PsoplVacant
4 .
\
„
2.1—2
r1
-
„
11
i—
i
2-
—
_-
. 13
e LegislatiuTo t .31
5".
29430
1253241322890687 6 *
224140
. 320 .288
50604060
1471172 00
32234**
60425294
——
56a—
30
4005 " ~
e Asse-nb l^^^^Vacant
6 .
\
13
..
—
—
4
-
———
1_
2
2
——
1.
1
* r lxcl t iding. 24 assts aar.narked Poi" Pakistan occupied t e r r i t o r y .*••-> /<ssQ,Tb 1 y d i sao I yEd .Q i V i t r cpn l i tai i Counci l Conati t uanc io ; i .\1'2 ~*~} Cnr.ai,'. j oi' vacancies, are sho'-'n in the statement
(AS on 31*3,1980)
Tiefno"*of sYot'e/ "r*"o.*~o"f "* ^ . ' ^Wiame o fUnion XerJ: •Lt2.~X.'>~. Seats__ const i tuency.
T " ""2" ' "~z~ " '
~c'au'so'~o7vacancy
1 1 1 "
Date o'f" '*Vacancy
3Z Z Z ZZ Z i Z Z"ffemarks"
Z 111
1 . M nahra Pradesh 1
2. Dinar 2
3- Cujsrafc 1
•-i o Haryana 2
J . jamnu h Kashmir 1
6. Kerala 1
7. i-bghalaya . 1
2C--Tirupathi(3c)
12-Shoohar
1! D--Godhra
1 O-Sirao (SC)6-Fariciabad
4-Ualicut
2-Tura
Regru
Qo3t'nRcgn.
2 .3 .30
31 ,7 .05 )24*2.DC;
2 C»11.8 7
Us
at
3a t h;a th
?nth
Dsath
R eq n . •
3 0 .1 0 ,
2 7 .
2 2 .
10
11
1
1
#
U .0
f *
0 .
2*
0737
37
87
87
£!-.::;:t.orfj.. r o l l ; -u i i . ' c r r •.•;•.•.; r - i C M ! -
C.l octor;' J. rol.in
clactorai rollsundar rauiaion.
Lento..»
- 54
8. Nag a land Maqaland R eg n. 3.12.87
9,, Oricoa
10., Rajasthan
11. Tamil Nadu
12. Utter Pradssh
S-Ksndrapara
21-Pali
24-!iadurai
5G~AilababadG1-Daghpat
Uoath 25 .3.33
Death
Death
Death
10.3.87
7.2.88
23.7,8729.5.87
Holding of bys-t-isctiorjnot cGnsicJared desirablein uiou of pondingboundary dispute bjtwaonAs earn and Mag a is no.
Elactoral Roll underrauision, finalpublication on 1.6.SC
Election to be held u/ith.general a-Lecticn zo 'StuttIjzijisiativ/e Asa
£l8cti"n petition pending
'55
I.Bihar 34 .All the following 34 soatat° be f i l l ed from local
authorities*"constituencies
Retired
Pa tnaL, A.MaIanda L.A.Caya L.A.Auranoabad L.A,Nauada. L.A.Bhcjpur L.A,Rohtas L.A.Saron L.A.aiuan L.A.G o u m l G a r . j L . A .UPSt Champaran L.A.£a a t Ch£ nparan L » A,'••U23 f"farpur L.A,\/aisha!.i L,A,Si bati-^r h i L.A. •Dnrb'nnnnti L.A.n.adhubani L.A.Sauaotipi/r L.A.f^onohyr L,A«t'egussrai—cum—Khagarla L.ABhic&Ipur L.A,Purges L.A,Kat ihcr L,A.Son t h a i Pargan^s L*A.(2 seats)ffazBribagh L.A.C i r i r i i h L.A.Pai0m?!u L.A.Ranch! L.A,(2 seats)Dhanbad L.A.
utn L.A, (2 seats)L.A,
11 ma tribe rsrstircuJ on6.4.78, 1".membersre t i red or,31.5.60 and12 meinbororebirsd on6.5.62,
Bisnniel °.lsction3to be h>3ld only alocal bodies
ilxi ted
2.Karnataka 21 ( All tha 21 seats to bafilled from localauthor! I".: c<s ' constituenciesare vacant.)
Gulbaroa L.A.Gijspur L.A.Bol^iutfi L.A. (2 seats)Uttara-Kannada L.A./'Dharuad L.A.(2 seats)Raichur L.A.'Bslisry L.A«Chitr.uiurga L.A.
Daks hina~Ka nna c!a L. A «Cnickmaqalur L.A.Hassan L.A.Turnkur L.A,Mandya L.A
Ratirad 7 mambarsraLir!-tl on1.7.78, 7membersr e t i r e d on
. 14.5.8G and7 tnsmbersr e t i r e d on11.6.62.
L.A.Kol3i- L.A.KadaQU L.A.Hyscro L.A.Auri'-T,nahnd~cuRi-Jalna L.A« R e t i r e dV i i"' rci L, A . (1 e t i r fl d
(Buth the aasts r,e bafi'llf-d from locali ' ' f h n •" i i' ^ ' <ri \
7.7*625.12.66
Certain local bodiesyet to be constituted.The Commission hasdecidad to holdelection only aftera l l local bodies araconstituted*
Ths progrsriirra to holdthe election has notyet been fixod.
(nil tha 39 saala t ^ R r a b i r t 3 l J 2 6 m S m b s r g r e U r B ( J „ R e c a n a t U u f c i o n
authorHie9''cona?i:tiJ3neiBa en E.5.B0 end 13 of local bodiessjre vacant.) members x-ft tared au.ait.ede
on 5.5.82,Tehri Garhual L..A.Garh- ' a i t . A . 'Kuf.naon L.A.Horadabad-Bijnor L.A,Rampur-3oreillsy L.A.Badaun L.A.Pilibhii-Shahjahanpur L.A.H>.rCoi L.A.Khsri L.A.Sitspur L.A.Lucknou-Unnae L.A,Rao Oars l i L.A.Pratapgarh L.A.Suitsnpur L.A.Sara Qanki L.A,Gonda L.A,Faisabcd L.A.Bast i L.A,,Gorakhpur L.A.Qaoria L.Ae.Azarnqarh L.A.Bal i 13 L.A.Ghszipur- L,,A.3?.unpur L,A«U?-rana3i L.A.f l i rzapur L»A. (
A.llai:absd L.A.BanrJa-Hamirpur L.A«Dhansi-Dalsun-Lralitpur L.A..Kanpur-Fatehpur L.A.Zta \JB h-fa rruk haba d L* A „A era L.A.
58 -
:dech(Ccntd^
fbaru t -Gai iz ia bnci L.A.
Reconstitution oflocal bodies auai-
Kashmir 6 2 jy Kashmir Psnchayat2 Ey 3 a in mil Panciiayat1 J a i n i i U L . A .
20.10.0722.10.8721": ,11.872o.11.87
1 * ,-lnrJhra
-t- . '"• v^ ~> -» " '
3. Bihar
Josh 1 44-Prnttipadu
1 22-3alnaro(South)
3 7 0-ionbar5a
2 95-Chibanoa(ST)
41-r:aliya31-Dua.rka
declared void.
Uoath
25.3 ,08
15.12.87
17 .2 .08
election 9.12.G7declared void.
Death 12.'2.38
DaathDeath
1.1. OS7.3,80
rla d e of r a 'j i s i o n o felectoral rollt. underconsideration.
Electoral rolls " •under revision* • "
Election' ps-titionpending.
Lontd...
G. iodnya Pradesh 4 9~CohQd(3C)1G-Lanhkar Coot
DoathDeath
1 0.J m'J » \.) I J
Fi f !gn« T) 7 Q n
G. Hajcsthan -. 1 25- Khetrt Oonth 22.:5.07
7. Tripura 2 Li-Fotikurv e lect ion countcririancJocJ. •*"-1~3iri:inrj (&T) Doath 20.3.63
2. UtLar Pradesh 2 133-Tanda40j-iJhqprat?ii
9» Wo3t Genual 2 ' 1 G-r.umarc]ram25G-iJnrabni (3T)
Dsath ' 1 .13.1.37Death 24.10.87-
DoathDeath 14.12.C7
1G. Delhi 1 11-f'lalviya FJagar Death 30,7.07
11. Fordichorry 1 23-lJutavy Grcnr.! Alt.ieo-' DGath 9.11.07
3 Y _ t H g _ J H I GH C ^ _ _ JS T A Y E D B Y ~ ^ T J P R E [ ' : £ " C O U R T .
DEJLiLk§ G F . .ELECTI[ NS _0E C LA R ED VOIDf r l ^ £ T H E ^ T ^ g l ^
S»Nc.'& Nams of Cons t i tuency Causs Date of .:?i!a£a
Rerr»srks
5
'i «2£G-Dagtial Election dsclarod void. 10»6»86 Supratne Court qvantocistay against High Court'order on 30,6,06,,
2. 1 Sl-Ar;norio(ST)
3* 14-Lahsr
Election daclored void, 30,11.85
Dsath 17.2.86
Suprsni'a Court cr^ntad stayagainst High Court's ordero n 3D. 11.85.
Stay granted bySupreme Court'.
ccntd.. . .
- 61 -
4. ' . BO-Karouli
5, .1E3-3odhpur
6- 310-Chhibramua
g. 251 -Mariab'J
9. 3 45-Sakit
POND ICHERRY
(
2*2 5cat3 fromBombay l o c a lauthor i tier>.
Elt2Ction declaredy o i d
Elactiun declaradvoid.
Election declaredvoid,Election declaredvoid,
Ellsction declaredv c, x d,
Electicp, declaredvoid.
expelled£xpa lied
22.10 .86
18.2.87
1 2.8.B7
14.5.07
21 ,1 .87
'i 3.1 .8?
Flatter pshding in Supran-c Court.
18.12.S6 I
13.12.85 I
E b I b " L B T I V £ f.r.' Jt-i'wi K.
Elections declarsdvoid.
24.10.85
Appeal f i l ed in the Supreme Court.
—do—
Appsal f i lod in Supr^K Court.Stay ordered hy Ccui-t.
- d o—
Stay granted by High Court,
Appeal filed in Supi-;no> Court,
-K •J!- -; -X- -X- X- -h-
o i x h - ^ ^ r s s nesr-ijer? nf t h a C o u n c i l o f t > c a i ? ?
r r . v r ?. .- .snntinj t h e S t a t e s ' " a n t - D nc:... a a i o v u e r r . uiss
:D r f - t i r L o n 2nu A p r i l , : ? C c ; -
2 a . . ; : . - i a r •" _ 3 •
3 « -1. " :ir ;rt <*s
> 3 , t t l c r i r a ' i o s h4»'Je81 Seng a 1
Total 53
i ne Cc runiss.ion recomrnencisd to the P r e s i d e n t
tv :i-5Di;o tuo n o t i f i c a t i o n s - one in r e s p e c t of "
... :3rf«r.u £* Knc-hmi.r for f i l l i n g tuo s e c t s and ano the r
i n r e s p e c t of o t h e r 12 S t a t e s for f i l i i n g 58 s e a t s
{'0N.crpt.in3 p ' j n j a b ) , under s s c t i o n 12 of t n s
n f i p r ^ s c n t c t i c n of tha i e c p l e Act , T 951 on 4th c-nu
S t r \'r'?cr , 1360 r e s p s c t iva i y , c e i l i n g upon t h e
ulect.;.':b Ficrr.bers of the L e g i s l a t i v e ".s^er.b l i s a of t h e
"ji'^ios; t o e l e c t msmbers for t h e pi:rros€ of f i l l i n g
'•'-•-*. rc-.i.:. of tl-3 GG np.r'o^rs of Cos-ncil of S t a t e s
^ : " : i r i r n en 2na A p r i l , iSCT. The e l e c t i o n s for 3
"''•• .••'•'"• T o n •;!•.-• ^ t c t c c f T-LTiO C.b h c U ' 3 - f t b e e n ; K : L :
or? or.'-. K a r e n , 1983 as t h e e l e c t o r a l C o l l e g e f o r
the; pvxpof.c c e a s e o t o e x i s t .
The r.:. 12-Ou iriQ progrctr.ne uc-5 r i x e d Tor t h e bo inn . i a i .
for For
t i j j for :iiHorct 21 -3-1 9S5(rionday)
5> Jt:te c" p o l l , if ?8-3-19Efiscss-rry " (Rcnday)
U) IE'JIS sf . 9-j-!9£8 4-3-19B6i.otificsiticn v'Jeun3Sjay") iKricay)c.E.inr.3 thea j c fc- c r*
(2) U:Dt ;n t e for 16-3-1SC6 11-3-190Gr:7?;.irn ncninations ('Jecno GO ay) (Friuay)
13) JBle ior scrutiny 17-3-1933^ IZ-S-'igBE^of ncainotions (lhurs;;ay) (Saturaay
44) L = s t c-r:ts forui thr j r t - 'c l of
il States, 19-3-1988 id-3-1968(Saturuay) (Monday)
9EB 2S-3-19 88) ( )
{&.) J : : S before which 3G-3-13CC 30-3-198.8poll fas to be (jc-jnssaay) (L'
l td
* ne different stages c-" elections excepting tna
pc!3 iiais uero fixea in respect of jsririiu ^ Kasnmir &
ji.-3ar.7t s tates Kscping in uieu cn-3 public noliciays
in tries- States,
- 54 ••
Tns nours or' poll ueta as folioust —
1 . A.P. lO.CDaiv, to 2,G0pm2. dinar 11.COan to 3 ,00pm3 . iiujarat ™ 12.00air» to 3.0Cpm4. Haryana "" 11.00am to 3.00pm5. Hop'. ~ 11.0Cam to 2.UUprn5 . d & K ~ 1"i .CDan to A.OCpm7. Knrnatska ~ lO.OOan to 2,GCpmS. i'iauhya Prsnesh _ 10.00am to 4.00pm9, f'lnh-rasritra ** ID.OOsm to 1 .GCpm'iO.Crissa "" IQ.GOan to 2.0CprnII.Rajasthan ~ 11.00am to 3,CCpm12.U.P. _ 10.3-Gatn to 2ACpm13.iJ.fcJ, ~ 10.0Cara to 2.00pm
Tne Secretar ies of Legislatures or" respective
States excepting Gujarat ana Maharashtra States uere
appointed as Returning Off icers . For 'Jujarat 3nci
Hah-arashtra S ta t e s , Secretary-in-cbarge and Deputy
Secretary of tha i r respective Legislatures were
appoints^ as' Returning Officers . Tha Special /
AuuitionaX/ joint /ueputy/ Jiijer Secretar ies of ths
concerned Legis la tures , uers appointGu as Assistant
Heturning Off icers .
As th3 nyn-.bsr cf contssting "canoiaiastes uas
eqL-al to the" number erf- se^ts to b-s f i l l ea in Haryana
iinrj j j m u & Kashmir, a l l the 3 contesting canaidatas
uer3 asclarea s Isct'j'i unon^efsea. In t i e remaining
States the number of contesting carries :iteas u a s
inors than ths nunber of s s - t s to be f i l l ea and
thsrat'ore the poll was ta' on as scheavlsa. The
pnll uas ta!<sn in l:ie re-psct ivc builrjirrjs of
Legislatures. For •jforsssirj &ief:ni-.;I,'!:>ye~«.L3c;t';::\ ;•';
to the Council ct States, the Crist' Z .Victor a I uf'fico;1;
of ths concur nod States uere appointee as Corarnissi.cn*.'
Obsarv/ers.
The counting cf votss uas taken up iremsuiater.y
after tne poll and re-suit _sclareu except in the .case
of u'ujarnt. The r~-suiz or election or' 4 sssts r'rem
the oM-arat was uilhhaiu by tiie Conrnissior; r'o 1 JO'Jirg
ttio ccwplaints cP aliege.j rigging in the elect ion
frcn tne Oppocition Leausr of tne State Assemsiy
Snr2. Zmmanomi. Patei. The Corr.nission cancelioJ
tiiS r cur .jisputej uotas f'cujr.u in two folds ana
ordered resumption of the counting after hcarina
ths rivcl parties ar,c the State Chief Eier.ioral.
Officer & Returning Officer snd the Dbssrver in,
Je lh i . The result uas declared by tho Rsturning
Officer on 2nd April, 1966,
Tha nurijar of contenting candiustes was 7 in
Ancihra Pra'JBsh, 11 in Bihar, 5 in Juiarat , 2 in
Hirachal Pracesh, 5 in Karnataka, 7 in fiadhya
Prsd:;t-r., 3 in risharashtr^, 4 in Orissa, 5 in
Rajasthsn, 14 in Uttar Franesh ana 6 in Uast Benjal.
Tns ncrujs ° r e iec .o- "Jf^ers ui tn tnc i r p ; r ty
a f f i l i a t i ons ,i:e giv^n b e l o u j -
Name of Sta te Mans of e lectee Partycandidates, _ _ _ _ _
i *- °
1. Ancihra Fraaesh 1. Shri Saty-anarayana INCuronamraiu
2 . Shri Narreariy Thulasi TL<Pfjeddy
3 . Shri Hohd. Khalaclur T3PRah nan
4. Snri Rotura Hanunantha CPMREO
5 . 5'nri Lonavath !;arsir>3 TJP
6. Shri Sivcj i Yela.n-.anch i.li Tap
2 . 3iiYar . 1. Shri Yashuant Sirha 3"iP
2. Shri Si ta Ran Kesnri Ii'iC
3 . 3hri uays Kan, Sahay 1,'iC
4. Shri y indBshuar i ^ufcay I ;v; C
5 . S n r i S h c r i fit-din Hasnrni LKu
: 6. Shri Raiique n h n IriC
7. JV , oagannath f'lishra Ii'<C
8. Shri KaguniRan I.\-C •
3 . G u j a r a t 1 . i n r i P n b e l V i t h d u h a i INCnotixac:
2, Shri Parmar "-jubiin.1 JV.CArrar.h'iai-
4 . Cfiri Gnl
Haryana 1 . Shri r\Q--
I - ' ; - - . . : ' ; ; " . "'-• • ~'~?~ 'r-J ::'•'• i l 3 " r c - r ^ p a 3 'J C
2 , ; - r i ..shL-iar. ^asooi r lat to JKii
7 , 'M=rri2t;!;.i 1 , 2-ni-i H£ H anumant'iappa I-'JC
4. x" : i \buui 5amau Sidciqui JWP
1 . ^n-i r:otilal Jem IUC-
2 . Sr.it. S i t n n Ku-nsri - IMC
3 . Sr.-ri Rz-J'rz K i e h a n ' - INC
/•. S r . r i L.il • B3P
E . S n t . Veena t/iirma IMC
6 . S h r i Mi-n-jj: a j 3i"iarauaj IMC
Shanrao IMC
2» 5rr.t, K . h ^ p s r a e , S a r o j ' INCPuru-hott nmrzo
3 . Shri Jcdhsv, Uithalr^D IKC
~ ^ i^ .^ n „ 4- : *» < ^. u ( , ,* , -. ^ , , "inn
5, Shri BnvHJira, fi'jrliunar L'iCChancinv. r.nt
fi. Snri Singh, I'isnvjit INCPritnv;! it
10.0ris.sa 1 . Shri Kohnu Charan Lanka INC
2 , S h r i Santosh Kumar Sahu INC
3 . S h r i Hcnniohan flathur INC
1 1 . Sa j a s than 1 . S h r i Abrar Ahmad INC
2 . S h r i Bhuvnesh C h a t u r u e d i INC
. 3 . Shri Kanal norarka JNP
12.Utt^X' 1. Shri Anaari I'iohmeu Amin IMC
2 . S h r i Anrnci Pr akash G a u t a^ INL)
3» S h r i Is'n O u t t Vadau LKi-i
4"; Smt. Kailash Pati INC
5 . S h r i ChauaMary H?.ri S i n g h , L\!CB l i i
G. i h r i FiauJUn?. ;;.sau iviouni INC
7c S h r i Ram f-Jaresh ' jfv'P
8, Sr.ri Sh'cnti buaroop Tyagi 1UC
s * s h r i Shiv Pratap Mishra INC
1 0 , Sr.t. Seiyauati INC
11 , Shri 5-, Suarni.
13. UsCu 1 . Shri ft this Sen CPi*lBer. s;\l
2. Ghri Juruaas Jas -upta CPI
3 . S h r i nor.ar.iT^d Amirs CPM
4. Shri 3;:;;om"l Sen CPF>
R5P
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As rcqi-irsd fay cad ion 71 o?~ tn;.- .'-.,P. Ac!-. ,1 951 ,
tha r,=ncs cf elected por3onc- uers pubAIsneu in the
Garotte cr Inuia on 3-4-1 S8S« Therer'tre their tort-.:
u i l i extsno uptc 2-4~7 394 .
Shri L.K.Jha, an-.elsctea member From the St=-.t<:
of rfinur, expired an 15tfi j anjar yt19SC*. But for his
death 3!-.ri jha uoula hays cc-tinuerf as Pstr.bsr of the
CoLincil or Stctc'3 fpto 5-7-1992. Acccraingly a
bya-rlsc;tio"n to r ' i l l the said seat fro'n t'-'3 Stats
of 8.1h-r uas also neld i-'itn tr.e same progranne as
was Hfjoptsa fnr tha biennial- s-lscti-nr, to the Council
of s tates froa the State or' binar . The Secretary,
Bihar Legislative Assembly ana Jeputy Secretsty,
Sihar '..e-jislstivs AsssRbly uers appointed as
RsturninQ Officer ana Assistant Returning Of-ficsr
rccpsctiuEly« The hours of poll were the sane as
were sooptea for ths biennial elections to t'"3 Council
of SLaies fron iha 3ihar S ta te .
TncrB were three ualiuly nominatau canui-Jates
tuo of yhom uithdreu frcfti ths contest, Smt. Pratibha
Singh of" 3KC, uho uas the only contesting candidate;
uas Jsclarc-j el^cte-J unopposed.
( i i ) JLIKUm__L_
Shri KIiaRsum NamgysJL Pu l l e r , an e lec ted .
rr.araer from tho State of Sikkim, resigned from his
mer±>ership of the Council of S ta t e s u . e . f . 1-3-1988.
But for nis r e s igna t ion , ha uould have continued' as
member of tha t House upto 19-10-1993.
Accordingly a oys—olection tc f i l l the said
seat from the Sta te of Sikkim uas also he.l^ u i th the
ssms pr0.3r.cn~e as uas aaopteo for the b i enn ia l
e lec t ions to the Council of S ta tas fro.? 12 Sta tas
u i th the issue of the Commission ! s n o t i f i c a t i o n on
9th March f_ 1533 and poll en 2Sth March, 1CS3. The
Sscretary snri tne j o i n t S^cretsry of the Sik'<j.m
Legislative' As3£.T3 iy '/ere aprointeJ as REturninj
Dff.icar ~nd Assis tant ;"!et?jr r.in"; Officer r e spec t ive ly .
The hours of po l l usra from 10 .iXari)^ Disre'usrjB t.,o
coriZQ~tir,i canoidatas .-.n accaro.ing Iy 'c' •-'. p o l l was
hsla as shcedulad and 3h:: i Ksrn\^ T^n;:in3 Tcpaon of
Sikkim San^rcm Farisiiaa u ~s dec is.rua s lee t e a .
(C) "> iGn_nr.i 1 5_l_1_cj; ic_n, ^u^ _? iv3"L-J-G _,AS yl ..i.1-'e S^'-'ncili
The "on: dc-:ion r3c. ru'enuc:] -o the Jovsrnor
of Bin^r to issue .2 no t i f i c a t i on unaar seciic-n 15 of
tiic RGprcsont "t ion of ti>c- People 1c;t,'lS'5i on L'tn
on ths of the Dih^-r
pl'-oss c ;" r.:.n.i.(-g the- a .•.?. of 11 K * r : cf 3ihar
, j
nd for the biennial
9th Fi
* • _ #Uuvt, cr.hs for rckinc 15th Harch, 19S'.: (Uadnesds y)nccina ti:;ns j
Dats for scrutiny of 17th ferch, 1SSE (Thursday)ii :na
/I. -Lust &at;> for uicndraual cf 19th f'terch, 19S8 (Saturday)
5, D.-to cr poll , if r.G = 3£ssry. 29 th March. 1938 (T^J.ssday)
5, O^ts befcre bhich i.ne claction 2nd Apri 1,1 9Pb (Saturday)
ucs to bs zcv,plz ^sd.
Ths hours of poll uers fi>-"d from I"*.a.m. to ".00. p.m.
Ti~e 3:?c-.-r ":i rys LG;Ji" la t ivs Assanjly of Bihar 'jss appointed
as Returning Officer £-.r,d Deputy Secretary, Lapis la tive
Asser;:; ly ::•? Hih^r UL.2 sppoiptad as A'isistant Returning
Officer.
Thare wore 14 - cnntcstinc; candidctas. The poll
i;as j-j lr! as scheduled. Tuo officers or the Commission
'jars S3--,t to 0.1'if'.r to over ~se t^i^ c^untinq of votes of
bi£nr,iEl/by£3-"2i?ctions to Legislative Council,
The fullo'jinQ candidates \jp.ra declared clectedJ-
-;.£r?", "/_. ".-.Lc i::.:L .£lIlH,: *LJr5. Party
1. Shri Bhaguat Dte Az-d INC
2. Shri. Ranianath Thakur LKD
3 . Shri Rarna Nand Yadev ' INC
4. ShrA^U. Indu Devi 3NP
5. Shri fj.da Huss;:ir. Ansari INC
6. Ghri Lclitsshi.'ar 3hs ir;C
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7. J r . L'nesnucr Frasad I'erna - INC
8. 5hrinati Stenshila Hembratn - INC
9. Shri Vibhuti Kaui - INC
IQ.Shr i Hag Bandu Adftikari - . 3NP
11 .Sh r i C h h a t r a p a t i Shahi Muntia - Jfl1'.
The names of thase person y i l l be publ ished
in the official qazetta, os required under section
74 of the Representation of the Peopls Act,1951 on
7th f''ay,1SGc and hence t ' e i r term I'ci'ld extend
upto 6-5-1994.
(u) 3ye~elections to the Legislative Councils of
Bihar ana K arnataka \ ~
Shri Tripurari Prasa-j Singh, a member of
tiihor Legislative Assarrbly alected by merriiers of
Bihar Legislative Assaroly sxpired on 2£th January,
198B, But for his ciuatn, he uoula have continued as
marnber of that HCJSS upto 7-7-1992. Accoraingiy a
by-3~clection to f i l l the said ssat USE also held
uith the sanis progrcfn'rr.e ao uas acopteo fcr biennial
oZoctions to the Bihar Leiislatiye Council, Tha
hours cf roll were the same as were for the biennial
elections. The Secretary ,-nd the Jeputy Secretary
of Sinar LcniElrjCive Asosrbly usre appointed as
Rotumirr; Gffic.-or am Ar.ristsnt t^eturflin • Officer
rnspactivsly„
There vas only one v^Iiciy norr.in;:tea candiuata
viz. ihr i r.:;.:.- Hath. Psti-.a* cf IuC. According ly, hs
Legislative Counci i r electee by members cf Karnateka
Legisi-Live Asserb!y-expires en -13-1 i -1 SB? ." But for
his eenth, :•*•- 'joul'.i .TT'.VE continued as' a "errber of that
House upto i: ": —r-1 &£'£» "icccroir.q ly a by^-slecticn ho
f i l ] the r ; £ i seat ..<::;. also •••aid vith t;:s sane
frrcgran:~e c:: ;..cr .i^uptBct for t:"'8 biennial elections
t c the CcK'nzi" of Sts ter fron" ths State of Karnataka,
Tha hours cf ".oil were fro Hi iG.COam to 2.0Cpm.' Tha
Additional Sec re t a ry . Karnataka Legislature and
•Jep'Jty Seccc-ti-ry, Karnataka Legislature uers -
appointed a.- ^sturning Officer and Assistant
iletur nir.j Cff ics r rer-^sctiva ly» There uers 4 valiciy
naninatso cz:r.-jiti:itant three of uhon uithdreu from
the coritccL. 3hri P»Tnippniah of JNP, who uss the
cniy cor.tzc t i ••,gi c^foiDats was declarea elected
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SSGLUTIDt-.1 OF PAr;"AB LETI5LATIVE: ASSEf-;nL¥
The last general election to the Panjcb Lecis la c.lvs
Assembly uas held in Saptanber,1985. The f i r s t moetiric
of the Assembly -uas held on 17th Octcbsrji985. ThereTcre,
i t s term uould have extended upto 16th 0ctcbRr,199C,
The Barnala' flinistry which assumed office af ter
the 1-985 general ^lsction uas dismissed en 11,E,27 ana
fche'State uas brought under President's .Tula u, = .f«
11.5.E7, but the Assembly uas kept under susper.csd
sritnaticn, which uas extended by another six ruc-r.ths.
However, on 6th March,38, ths President of India
dissolved the Panjab Legislative Assenbly,
During the month cf ".arch, 1988. prsss reports/
art: r.3.ss/aditor ials on elactions and political systems
cf* f'CTsirjn countries and other matters of interest
appeared in tho press. The press—clippings and
3rtic2as as ars ccnsidared tc bs of special interest
P.TB b~5.nr. reprnducsd in full in tha follouir.cj psges-j
3.3.E& Patriot Hscds's Bills cfcontsntion-I
"«0»3.Be Patriot ' Hecrla's Bills ofc or, t s n t i en-11.
",r.«*3.SB Indian Express Landslide uin far. • Bush in primary
polls.
•J2»3.CS Ths Hindu ' Esolating violancin polls.
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* X THt KARNATAKA* / LEGISLATURE•Sfr (Powers, Privileges and
Immunities) Bill. 1988
A Bill to declare and define thepowers, privileges and immu-
nities of the two Houses of theState Legislature and of theMembers and Committees there-of: to secure freedom of speechand debate or proceedings in theHouses; to provide for the pun-ishment of breaches of the privi-leges of the Legislature: to giveprotection to persons employedin the publication of the Reports.'papers, minutes, votes or pro-ceedings of the Houses and mat-ters connected therewith.
Whereas by Article 194(3) ofthe Constitution of India thepowers, privileges and immuni-ties of a House of the Legislatureof a State, and of the membersand committees of a House ofsuch Legislature, shall be such asmay from time to time be definedby the Legislature by an Act ofthe State Legislature.
Whereas it is expedient, nec-essary and desirable to declareand define the powers, privileges.-uid immunities, of the two Hous-es of the State legislature and ofthe members and Committees ofthe Houses;
Whereas it is expedient, nec-essary- and desirable to make oth-er provisions, so that the StateLegislature and the members andCommittees thereof may dulysnei properly discharge their du-lies and functions;
Whereas it is- expedient, nec-essary and desirable that thepowers, privileges and immuni-ties of the Houses of the StaleLegislature should be clearlyknown and declared and definedto the people of the State and toall concerned in comlbrmity withthe rights of the citizen.-,.
Be it enacled by theKarnataka State Legislature inthe Thirty-ninth-year of the Re-public of India as follows: -
CHAPTER I- Preliminary
1. Short title and com-mencement — (1) This act mav
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(2) It >hj'l come 'nto force atonce.
2 . D e f i n i t i o n s . — <l)In t h i sAct. unless the context otherwiserequires.—
(a) "Committee" means acommittee, which is appointed orelected by the Stale Legislatureor nominated by the >peaker orI he Chairman, and which worksunder the directions of theSpeaker or the Chairman andpresents its reports t( the StateLegislature or to the Speaker orthe Chairman;
(b) "House" means theKarnataka Legislature Council orthe Karnalaka Legislative As-sembly, and inek.des aCommittee:
(c) "Member" means a mem-ber of the House, and includes theChairman of the LegislativeCouncil, the Speaker of Legisla-tive Assembly and any memberpresiding in the House or in theCommi'tee:
(dl "Officer of the House"means any person, who may.from time to time, be appointedto the staff of the Hcuse eitherpermanently or temporarily, andincludes an\ police officer onduty wilhii 'he precincts of theHouse: and
iei "Si>:iker" or "Chairman"include- the rn-mher for the timebeing presiding over the House.
(2> Woids and expressionsnsed bui not defined in this Actshall have meaning aligned tothem in t lie Const it i:t ion ofIndia.
CHAPTER IIPrivilege.-; and Immunities
3. Freedom of speech in theLegislature. -- There shall beIreedom o! speech in the House asprovided in cbuse il! of Article194 of the Constitution.
4. immunity from Je^'aisection. -- No membtr shall beliable to any proceedings in any
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taiued, convicted or imprisoned.;r.Trr:.;Uion o: sa:-h a m - ' , detec-tion, conviction nr hi'pn.-onnHT.ttogether with the eh >r es a"a5r:;t<ir grounds of d-.-o i,ii.>.i, the pip;*of detentionof ,;.i,h mj.-.thershiiforthwith be suit to the Speakeri.-f the Legislative Asserabivor theChairman of the I..-:,ds!aiiveCouncil. 3.-. the case TIJV be. mthe form specified in the*:.chedide-J hy the j>fr-cri unH«rv.v.o = e author;*'/ or order the a:-rvst. detention. con1, itti'Mi or im-prisonment ii effected.
IJ;.- if anv member so arrested,detained. imprisoned "r convue-ed U enlarged on hi-ii pending in-vestigation .ir trial >r :=• releasedafter conv'ctior. pendou an ap-peai. or otherwise r^fj-rd suchfact shall he intimated to xhcChairman of the L^islativ*
<'Ji Any order to
Council or the of theLegislative Aistmbh.', a- {he casemay be, in the firm specified inthe Schedule.
{'.>} Ii the Speaker or th*Chairman, as the case may be. is
• of opinion. or receipt of ir.ion:-?.--tion under sub-section 11'. or oth-erwise, and after consulting thewishes of 'he H,»jse that the pres-ence of such member is essentialfor the pi:rt:.(.=es of the proceed-ings of the House, he shaii informthe State Government according-ly, ar-H the Stale Governmentshall 'ake necessary steps forth-with t'i brir.i; -uch mer.'.hfi r-nsuch escort as it mav consid^;iiec^-s.sary. or in ;uch mariner as krr,c'y deem to the House and suchmenioer may attend such meet-ing or meeting? • r the House onsuch day or days, as speciiied bvth;1 Speaker or the C'ha:~ntan:
Provided tha* the Sta'e Gov-ernment may tike sucn steps as itmay consider lit for the custodyof the member durim- 'he timethe pre-ence of ^ueh member isnot necessary ir. the House.
S. Protection for givingevidence. — No Statementmade by a person in the. course of
hail -u';;f. t him to or 1 <•• usc-ci•tgaiiwt h-:n- in ir.v ..Wi\ or cri'ni-nalpro.:ef-d::ij;sexcrp;. a p r. secu-tion f..r •{ivini: raise ?vvk':K-(: by-uchsta^nent .
Provided that the
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lion, v./rr.ade \n rep!v to a ques-: r h He is recT:i"eci '">y the
10- .s relevant to the sciijectmatter of the inquire
9. No Bifmber or office* togive evi jenee elsewhere inrespect <A the ea:ttenj* oi evi-dence given before theHouse. - N o member or otficerof th? Ho.use shall give evidenceelsewhere in respect c-f the con-tents «;f evidence jdver. or of thecontents of any manuscript ordocur,»r:t laid before the Houseor ir, re-p-. ,:t oi any proceedings• •f..-examination held at the B«ror before tne H:Hi-,e with:,i;t rhespecial leave of the House first
10. Exemption of salariesand al!<v»vanees from r.tiach-ment.. —Salaries anS allowanc-es payable to a member under theKarna'.jkr. Ix-<;islat,i.-e Salaries.Pension and Allowances Act.1956 iKarnitaka Act Z of 19").to the estent of four hundredrupees ar.d two-thirds of the re-mainrer. shaii not be liable to at-tachment in execution of decreeunder the provisions of the Code-.,'. Civi! P.-i.c-dure.
11. Irr>muriity in respect ofact done in obedience to au-thority of House. — No person-hall be liable to any proceedingsin any court for any act done in•;t;cdi£n-re to or by or under theauthority of the House.
12. Power to appear be-fore the Koyse and lo producebook etc —- (P The House mavdirect asv person to attend beforethe Hot.;>e and to produce anypaper, b»*>k. record or d-Kumeni.in the po=ses:S!On or under thecontrol of such person.
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he case may be,vci'y such 5L;i::n:or;:>, therr.-r;trt*e(' the date, time ai.dSvi'T? the person oJi;>i» required to attend.r.v.c.b summons shall b : >
served by the de'ivery tW'.iM"-nrle.jv^ii* at the usual o~ the !:'.stknov.n pi.it-.- of residence of tr.eperson concerned, tiirori^h tr;e •District .'via.'] ;uate. wi'.hir'.vhos'1 jurisdiction tne said resi-dence hes wh > shall get i: if r."e ! 'by any person authorised bvh'.m 'in this behalf.
i4) Any person so sarrirnoned ;
to attend shall be entitled to re- 'cetve iVoni the Secretary to th.":*"House, such. travciiin=t and daily [•al!o'.va:'.cc-. as n'-ay be adniissilile .under ruics framed in thisbehalf. • '
(5) The House may require •any such witness appearing be-.fi!"e it *o V1 exrindned up(;r, onoath of affir;r,r.;>
;"-n and it shr.Uthereupon be law:''.! fortheS^cr;- •tar,' of the House or any person .authorised by the Speaker or the i
Chairman, as the case may be, toadminister an oath of'affirmation.
(6; Any person 5umiii{jred toappear who refuses or faiis v.dth^out reasonable cause, to appear toproduce on requisition any paper,bcok, record or document, as checase may be. which may be m hispossession, power or control,ahali be punished with imprisou-ment which may e:- .ond to oneyear and with fine which may ex-tend to one thousand rupees
f 7) Any person appearing as awitness who intentionally gives afalse answer to any question orexamination, shall be pur.i--hedwith simpie imprisonment whichiTiay extend to two years and w irhfine which may extend to twothousand rupees.
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(8) Every witness so sum-moned and examined, shall an-swer fully and fait hfully any ques-tion put to him before the Houseand shall not be liable in civil orcriminal law for any such answergiver, or tendered by him and allproceedings arising thereof in anycourt shall be terminated on ttieproduction of a certificate signedby Speaker or Chairman of theHouse under seal of the Housethat the witness was so requiredto answer.
13. Suspension or expul-sion of member for disorder-ly conduct: — (1) A memberwho disregards the authority ofthe chair or abuses the rules oft he-House by persistently and wilful-ly obstructing the business there-of may be suspended from theservice of the House after a reso-lution for such suspension isadopted by the House in accor-dance u-tth the rules of procedureand conduct of business of theHouse.
(2) A member, who after dueenquiry- by the committee of priv-ileges constituted under the Rulesof Procedure and Conduct ofBusiness, is lound guilty of dis-graceful, disreputable or heinousconduct or a breach of privilege ofthe House, may be expelled fromthe House after the House adopts
a resolution for his expulsimtherefrom.
(3) A member, who is sus-pended from the sen ice of or ex-pelled from the House shall not bientitled to enter-the house arcshall not be entitled to any of theprivileges and powers of u mem-her or to draw any salary or allow-ance payable to him as a membeiof the House for the period of sus-pension or expulsion:
Provided that the period n;such suspension shall not b<deemed to be absence undeiclause ('.D of Article 190 of thtConstitution of India.
14. Arrest of member, forcausing disturbances in thtHouse -- Any per* n creating, oijoining in any disturbance o;demonstration in (he- House or uits precincts during its actual sit
irarrant on the verbal or /< nttenorder of the Chcirmnn or theSpenki'r. as the ri<c may be. andmay be detained hi the custody otan officer of the House pendingthe determination by the Housewhether or not s-;ch person shallbe- punished for contravention ofthe provisions under Chapter IIIof ihis Act. but no such personshall be kept in custody after thetermination of the House.
15. Power of House topunish for breach of privi-lege — (11 The House shall havepower and jurisdiction to punishany member or other person forbreach of any of its privileges.
(21 The Rules of Procedureand Conduct of Busine.-s i.V theHouse may contain incidental orsupplemental provisions v.ith re-spect to the procedure to ne fol-towed by the House or by tht-Speaker or Chairman, as the casemay be. in cases where it is £.!-loped that contravention of any ofthe provisions under Chapter 111of this Act has taken place andma1.', in particular, provide for theappointment of Comirs;:;ee.s orprivileges and their power, funclion-, and procedure.
(3) No person shall be pun-ished by the House for co:r raven-tion oi any of the precision ofChapter Til of this Act ur.li.-^ heis informed of the c haigrs mad?against him anckgive-n a re^sosvabie opportunity of b-"irg hea'-ciin respect of the charges and he:=}.,}*{ have the right to hf-.defend-ed by a legal practitioner of his
examine witnesses agianst himand to adduce .evidence in hisde fence.
CHAPTER IIIPenalties
1(3. F t Hiilties tha t ni.iy beimposed by the Hoi»!?e - TheHouse ma> puni-h - ' thecontemnor bv imposing ;:.\\\ -oneor more of tbe foHo'.vin;; penal-ties, nar;'.e!y: —
(a) imposing a sentence ofirr.prisonrr-ent;
<b) imposing c sentence cffine;
(c) admin^t-r/irig ad-iunitioisor reprimand at the Har of theHouse;
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(a) ordering, in the case of anoffence cr)m;ni:;ed by a memberof the House, the suspensionfrom the ser-ke of :he House fora period not exceeding one monthor his expulsion from ; theHouse:
(e) ordering, in the case of anoffence corruruned by"a personwho is not a member, that he re-move himself'orbe removed fromthe precincts of the House or byprohibiting such person from en-tering the precincts of the Housefor a period not exceeding sixmonths.
17. Wilful obstruction ofrrt7 t - the di charge ofhis d i* e-> \ erson wilfullyb manner a
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Yt or « h er nail be pun-s'- d i h rigorousi" *"e Ic ia term whichn eu l ^ \ ithsorwithine jp r n \tend to five
tK ith both.a \ bedience of
re t" er wilfully^ev any order
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n B t PL re the freedom ofpre tu gi e protecc:on to
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Kamataka State Legislature inthe thirty-ninth Year of the Re-public of India as follows:
1. Short title and com-mencement — (1) This Act may-be called the Kamataka Freedomof Press Act, 1988.
(2) It shall come into force atonce
2. Immunity of a Journal-ist or a worker in the pressfrom disclosure of source ofinformation. — Notwithstand-ing anything contained in anyother law fur the time being inforce, no court shall compel a per-son to disclose the source of anynews or informal ion nor declare aperson to be guilty of contempt ofcourt for refusing to disclose thesource of any news or informa-tion in whatever manner ob-tained in respect of a publicationfor which he is responsible unlessit is established to the satisfac-tion of the court :hat such disclo-sure i= indispensable in the inter-est of Justice or national security,or for the prevention of disorderor crime.
3 . Right of access to thePublic Document. — (1) Everyperson who bonafide requires apublic document shall be entitledto obtain access to such docu-ment other than a documentspecified in sub-section (2) in ac-cordance with the procedurespecified in sub-section (3).
(2) Notwithstanding anythingcontained in sub-section (li. noperson shall have access to docu-ments concerning:
(a) Defence or security of theNation;
(b) documents referred in sec-tions 123 and 124 of the IndianEvidence Act, >8"i2;
(c) Foreign relation:(d) correspondence between
the Union and the State and be-tween the State and anotherState;
(e) Private information givento the Government inconfidence:
(!) Trade secrets;(g) Monetary policy, foreign
policy, economic plans and poli-cies, commercial or financial in-formation, where premature dis-closure may harm the national
interest or provide opportunitiesfor unfair financial gains to pri-vate inierest-s;
(h) Information which is.—(i) Likely to be helpful in the
commission of offences;(ii) likaiy to be helpful in facil-
itating escape from lega! custodyor to be prejudicial to prison secu-rity; or
(Hi) iikeiy to impede the pre-vention or detection of offencesor the apprehension or prosecu-tion ot offenders;
(3) (a) A person who wishes toobtain access to a public docu-ment may make an application tothe competent authority in thedepartment in which the docu-ment is found;
(b) An application under thissection shall be in such fjrra andshall contain such informationrelating to the document, to ena-ble the department to identify thedocument to which the applicantwants to have access to, as may beprescribed.
(c) an application may be ex-pressed to relate io ali documentsof a particular description, con-nected with a particular matter orclass of matters, but such an ap-plication niav be refused if com-pliance would interfere unreason-ably wiih the business of thedepartment or authority con-cerned, havir.g regard to any diffi-culty thai would exist in identify-ing, locating or collecting thedocuments containing the rele-vant information within ths fil-ing system of {hi department orauthority;
(d) wher? the application ismade to a department or authori-ty (hereinafter in this clause re-ferred to as the original depart-ment or authority) for access to adocument and the document isnot held by that department orauthority bu; is held by anotherdepartment or authority, or thesubieel matter of the document k-more clo- iy connected with thefunctions of another departmentor auti'i ^rity. the original depart-ment or ih- oUthoruy may trans-fer the application to the otherdepartment and inform the per-son making the applicationacco:di:v'!y; ,
(e) whore an application is so (•transferred to a department or ,authority, it shall be deemed to bea request made u> the department fror authority, tr.d U> have been re- fceived at the time at which that .department or authority receivedit. *
if) Upon receiving an applica- <•tion requesting for access the de- j^.partment shall take all reasonablesteps to notify the applicant of its *decision on the request as soon as *practicable and where the depart- ^merst after twenty working daysfrom the day or. which the re- *quest is received fails to notify ftthe applicant of the decision the .$department shall be treated ashaving refused the application. Ifthe department decides to admit *the application, the applicant •:(•shall he given ccce&i to the docu- <»ment as soon as practicable.
4. Penalty — Whoever is amember of en unlawful assemblyor voluntarily causes hurt, or W-wrongfully rtstrains or confines #ur commits crir.iir.sl intimidation ,,or threatens to comrf.it any of thesa;d effence? with the intention *of preventing any journalist cr itworker, ir. a newspaper o» journal ,.from performing hi- duties or dis-charging hi; Junctions a such or *•preventingth;publication,circu- :+latior, or distribution of the said ^newspaper or journal shall bepunished with rigorous imprison- *mf.nt for a term which rmy ex- £tend to six vears or wiih fije Awhich may extend tc twenty ,thousand rupees or with both.
5. Power to make ruJes. —(1J The Sic. - Government may. tsubject to the condition of previ- qous publication,- by notification ,in the oiiiciai Gaieue. make rales "*to carry oiu the purposes of this '<?"Act. ;w.
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Tl^? p<i'-v.' r3- pri-^if^^es etc., cfthe H .' :sti of the L*',-n Mature and
.. s i thereof areprcvirk-iforunderAr-'iic!° 19-4 o." th» Constitution."Frfi-v.iorr. of Speech in .he Le^is-1
-t'Jr« of livery Stats has been
r-i i«> r,f cia'Jfe 'I j of this A/tide. Imrnu-,)T w1 f t j ri:ty =i.":-i:;st court proceedings ifn
^ - r - 't-spt ;t of a:wthirs£ said or any^i K v <-.><,<- ,'ote given t>y a Member in the'
* o r !<!•>.*£ Lep^.-t;ure "or -my Committee"in ->L h*n")Ji d there<:: is provided by cnu'se i2>."t'ffe- it' t •• T.lis iniiirjnity is also't^t&rtded*
j i nL f j in rer.r.'jct of publiciition by or un-'<i r i r < -t=r the authority of a House ofi
a t 11 •} ar.y report, paper, votes o?-i
The powers, privileges andir;>rr!-in:tiei in other Yespscts, asprovided by clause (3!, shall be'r^uch t:r> fayy frcir. time to tiriie bvdeHn^d by the Legislature by law.;It :;; c~W u^;i: such tir'e as the'Legislature r.iay cheese to so de-^fino *lier.\ that the powers, privi-leges &nd imiuunU-ies snail be.thoje v»hich existed before the
T f , comrasneernent of the Constitu-' x v ^ a d. v ( - o n ,'44;^ Amendment) Act'f
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of pre- I K 'W aovetned by the pr»ced;rits
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It is Qfir^d expsdisn*. naces-'s^ry ar.d desirable that *.h?. pc-w-era, priv^iges as.d immunities otthe Houses should be cSeariy!"known end declared ar;d defined'to the people of the Stats and to.a!! corxerr.ed in conformity with'the rights of the citizens. It is uisjj,.detrr^d etpe-.iitT.r and r.iceiiaiyi
and de.iiraUe to define them arullo make othtr provisions so tha|(the State iegisiature and. theMembers and the committeesthereof duly mty prcp?rly dis-charge their duties andfunctions.
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NEW YORK, March 9 (PTI)Tne U.S. Vice-President. Mr
Geroge Bush, took a huge leap in hisdrive to succeed- to President. MrRonald Reagan, by scoring landslidevictories in"primary voting acrossmostly Southern American statesearlv "on Wednesday.
The Vice-President consolidatedhis status as the front-runner for theRepublican Party presidentialnomination by winning at least 15states out of the 17 in which theparty's primaries or caucuses wereheld'on Tuesday — billed as "superTuesday" sn view of the large numberof nominating convention delegatesinvolved.
The race for Democratic Party'spresidential nomination became evenmote confuted and open with threestrong contenders emerging fromTuesday's primaries in 20 sfates.
Rev. Jesse Jackson, the only niackin the contest, and Senior AlbertGore won • tronc successes to ioir, MrMichael Dukakis in the front.
Mr Bush trounced his closes! rival.Senator Bob Dole, winning 4^6 Rc-
Sublican delegates to the Istter's 92..csults from two stales are stiii no!
available.Mr Bush and Mr Dole have Ken
involved in a touch and bitter contest
2nd have traded victories in earlierprimaries. But the Dele campaignreceived a severe iolt on Tuesday andsome observers expressed the viewthat the Vice-Presicent was unstopp-able in his drive for Republicannomination.
A Republican needs 1139 partydelegates to win the nomination tocontest the presidential poll inNovember. Mr Bush now has 758aeainst 222 procured by Mr Dole and~0 by Mr Pat Robertson.
Mr Bush's landslide w'.n is attri-buted to the popularity of PresidentReagan in the southern states. MrBush has been errphasisine that hehas worked closely «ith the Presidentand supported his policies.
In the Democratic parly. Mr Jack-son won five sta-.es largely on thebasis of the overwhelming Black sup-port he enjoys but some news pollsindicated that he had also got abouteight per cent white vote Mr Gorgemade a surprisingly strong showing inTucsc.^'s primaries to pick up fivestates and give a boost to his saggingcamp.-ign.
Mr Dukakis, the Governor of Mas-sachusetts, won in six states to re-main slightly ahead of his rivals forthe Democratic nomination. The re-sults from three states were stillunavailable.
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