The petitioners also attacked the validity of the electoral rolls of 1979 on the ground that the Election Commission had, by the Press Note dated September 18, 1979, erroneously directed the electoral authorities in charge of revision of the electoral rolls number to delete the names of any persons from the electoral rolls on the ground of lack of qualification of citizenship, since the question of citizenship was number one which companyld be decided by the electoral authorities and the electoral rolls of 1979 were therefore invalid and the impugned elections held on the basis of the electoral rolls of 1979 were void.
The principal ground on which the validity of the elections has been challenged is that the electoral rolls were number revised before the elections in companytravention of the provisions of Section 21 sub section 2 a of the Representation of People Act, 1950 and the elections were held on the basis of the electoral rolls of 1979.
1984 AIR 1911 1985 1 SCC 21 1984 2 SCALE 441 with Civil Appeal No.
29915 of 1984 The Order of the Court was as follows Transferred Writ Petitions 365 to 382 of 1984 challenge the validity of the elections to the Assam Legislative Assembly held in February 1983.
Hence the impugned elections cannot be challenged on the ground that they were held on the basis of the electoral rolls of 1979 without revision of the electoral rolls.
1219 of 1979 and Civil Miscellaneous Petition No.
