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Calculated, The word 'calculated' means designed: it denotes more than mere likelihood and imports a design to affect voters. It connotes a subjective element, though the actual effect of the statement on the electoral mind reflected the result may afford a basis to ascertain whether the said statement was reasonably calculated to achieve that effect. The emphasis is on the calculated effect, not on the actual result, though the latter proves the former, Sheopal Singh v. Ram Pratap (1965) 1 SCR 175: AIR 1965 SC 677 (679).