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Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao Vs. Pothula Rama Rao and ors.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2005(3)ALD47

..... 11 in the election petition. application no. 1065 of 2004 is filed under order vii, rule 11(1)(a) of civil procedure code, read with section 83 of representation of peoples act, 1951 to reject the election petition.3. as per the averments in the election petition; the elections for the aforesaid constituency to the legislative assembly of ..... effected by reason of improper acceptance of any nomination. similarly, by mere non-compliance of any of the provisions of the constitution of india or the representation of peoples act or the rules or orders made under the act will not give rise to declare the election of the returned candidate by reasons of such non- ..... electoral roll of that constituency for the time being in force and whose is not subject to any of the disqualifications mentioned in section 16 of the representation of the people act, 1950'.therefore, the disqualifications to be treated as an elector are only mentioned under section 16 of the act 1950. admittedly, the first respondent .....

Shri Shiv Kirpal Singh Vs. Shri V.V. Giri

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1970SC2097; (1970)2SCC567; [1971]2SCR197

..... would not be invalid by reason of the candidate making his signature before the proposer and the seconder. even subsequently, a similar provision in the representation of the people act, 1951, and the rules frame thereunder for conduct of elections and election petitions, was interpreted in the same manner by the election tribunal in ..... electoral registration officer or in the office where the chief electoral registration officer directs it to be preserved in accordance with the rules framed under the representation of the people act, 1950. in such circumstances., if the rule-making authority did not consider it safe to rely on printed copies of the electoral rolls ..... it was alleged that a poster was published against the ram rajiya parishad and jagirdars and this constituted undue influence within section 123(2) of the representation of people act, 1951. it was held that the publication of the poster constituted undue influence. the commission observed :it may be observed that an attempt to .....

Shri Sadiq Ali and anr. Vs. the Election Commission of India, New Delh ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1972SC187; (1972)4SCC664; [1972]2SCR318

..... also be mentioned in this context that when the central government issued conduct of elections rules, 1961 in exercise of its powers under section 169 of the representation of people act, 1951, it did so as required by that section after consultation with the commission.39. we, therefore, find no substance in the contention that ..... all elections to the offices of president and vice-president held under the constitution shall be vested in the commission. according to section 169 of the representation of the people act, 1951 (act 43 of 1951), the central government may, after consulting the election commission by notification in the official gazette, make rules for ..... , it might not be possible for the illiterate voters to cast their votes in favour of the candidate of their choice unless there was some pictorial representation on the ballot paper itself whereby such voters might identify the candidate of their choice. symbols were accordingly brought into use. symbols or emblems are not .....

Ramashankar Kaushik and anr. Vs. Election Commission of India and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1974SC445; (1974)1SCC271; [1974]2SCR265

..... commission shall consist of a chief election commissioner and such number of election commissioners as the president may from time to time fix. section 2(g) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (hereinafter called the act) defines the word 'prescribed' as meaning 'prescribed by rules made under this act.' section 59 of the act provides that ..... party. the chairman and the general secretary were authorised to take a decision in the matter of giving representation in the committee to the i.s.p. (bihar) and other groups which decided to merge in the party. the committee also took a decision as regards the ..... the general secretary of the 'erstwhile s.s.p.', the general secretary of the 'erstwhile p.s.p.' and the chairman of the 'old i.s.p.' regarding the representation of the old i.s.p., socialist party (u.p.), socialist party (bihar) and the socialist party (west bengal) in the national ad-hoc committee of the socialist .....

Chandan Kumar Sarkar Vs. Chief Election Commissioner, New Delhi and or ...

Court : Guwahati

..... provisions relating to the conduct of election rules,, 1961 made by the central government in consultation with the election commission under section 169 of the representation of people act, 1951 the election commission is competent to make an order and to decide a dispute relating to the allotment of the symbol to a ..... (petitioner) was enrolled as an elector in the electoral rolls pertaining to the said assembly constituencies and penal action under section 31 of the representation of the people act be initiated against the persons who furnished wrong/false information on the basis of which his name was included in the electoral rolls of both ..... not know that he is not qualified for membership of the assam legislative assembly under article 173(c) read with section 5(a) of the representation of the people act, 1951 having been chosen from a constituency reserved for scheduled caste. (iii)the state government should initiate forthwith criminal proceedings under the relevant provisions .....

Vikas and Others Vs. State Election Commission and Others

Court : Delhi

..... available with the election commission was article 324 of the constitution and this power could not be circumscribed merely because the parliament had enacted the representation of peoples act 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the r.p. act), under which rules concerning, allotment of symbols and disputes arising therefrom, had ..... ) the legislature of a state may, by law, provide (a) for the representation in a municipality of (i) persons having special knowledge or experience in municipal administration; (ii) the members of the house of the people and the members of the legislative assembly of the state representing constituencies which comprise wholly ..... discovering the aspirations, the expectations and the needs, the limits to the patience and the acquiescence and the articulation of the views of the people whom they represent. they function best when they concern themselves with general principles, broad objectives and fundamental issues instead of technical and situational intricacies .....

Kanhiya Lal Omar Vs. R.K. Trivedi and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1986SC111; 1985(2)SCALE1370; (1985)4SCC628; [1985]Supp3SCR1; 1985(17)LC969(SC)

..... also be mentioned in this context that when the central government issued conduct of elections rules, 1961 in exercise of its powers under section 169 of the representation of people act, 1951, it did so as required by that section after consultation with the commission.13. the above decision upholds the power of the commission to ..... far as provision in that behalf is not made by parliament. in exercise of the power conferred by article 327 of the constitution parliament has enacted the representation of the people act, 1951 (43 of 1951)(hereinafter referred to as 'the act') providing for the conduct of elections to the houses of parliament and to the ..... programme and ultimately helps in the establishment of a westminster type of democracy which we have adopted with a cabinet responsible to the elected representatives of the people who constitute the lower house. the political parties have to be there if the present system of government should succeed and the chasm dividing the political .....

Srimati Sarita Devi. Vs. State of U.P. and Others.

Court : Allahabad

..... (5) sc 504 (shibu soren v. dayanand sahay & ors.) has held that the expression "office of profit" has not been defined either in the constitution or in the representation of people act. in common parlance, the expression ''profit' connotes an idea of some pecuniary gain. if there is really some gain, its label - ''honorarium' - ''remuneration' - '' ..... also be mentioned in this context that when the central government issued conduct of elections rules, 1961 in exercise of its powers under section 169 of the representation of people act, 1951, it did so after consultation with the commission. 11. again in air 1978 sc 851 (mohinder singh gill and another v. the chief ..... paragraph-10 of such judgement speaks as follows: "(10). i think that a brief examination of the scheme of part xv of the constitution and the representation of the people act, 1951 will show that the construction i have suggested is the correct one. broadly speaking, before an election machinery can be brought into operation, .....

Singam Satyanarayana and ors. Vs. Election Officer and Deputy Chief Ex ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2005(6)ALT1

..... position regarding the elections to a 'house'.34. the law in this regard is primarily contained in two enactments viz., the representation of the people act, 1950 and the representation of the people act, 1951. the earlier of the two enactments deals with the composition of each of the house and the delimitation of constituencies ..... disqualifications which render a person seeking to contest an election to a 'panchayat'.51. to demonstrate the above, there are disqualifications prescribed under the representation of the people act, 1951.52. sections 8 to 10-a of the act, enumerates the various disqualifications, which disable a person both from contesting and continuing ..... have already examined the meaning of the expression 'recognised political party'. for the same reasons even under the proviso to section 33(1) of the representation of the people act, 1951 (r.p. act), the expression must convey the same meaning as a political party recognized by the election commission of india, in .....

Jameel Vs. Gul Mohammad and ors.

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR1980Raj166; 1980()WLN555

..... parties. in my considered opinion, only those persons could be impleaded as parties to the election petition as has been envisaged in section 82 of the representation of the people act, 1951. the president and the general secretary of the janata party are neither necessary nor proper parties to the election petition, and the petition ..... under article 324(1) the election commission cannot do something impunging upon the power of the president in making the notification under section 14 of the representation of the people act, but after the notification has been issued by the president, the entire electoral process is in the charge of the election commission and the ..... symbol and identity card bearing candidature of the janata party was also given to shri mohammad sayeed khan, the list published under section 37 of the representation of the people act, 1951, showing therein mohammad sayeed khan as the official candidate of the janata party, has been produced and has been marked as annexure 1. .....