Whether the petitioner is entitled for a declaration as having been duly elected to the said Constituency ?
After the polling took place the companynting was done and Telugu Desam candidate was declared.
15 and 16 of Pangidigudam village in Janganddigudem Mandal, the polling has been stopped due to disorder for 5 five hours and 30 thirty minutes and resumed the election after 5.00 P.M. and held upto 11.15 P.M. on 22.11.89?
Whether the 4th respondent without properly verifying the votes, invalidated certain valid votes cast in favour of the petitioner ?
15 and 16 Pangidigudam village in Janganddigudem 11 Mandal, the Polling Officer as well as the Polling Agents of Telugu Desam Party wearing yellow dress were canvassing for votes in the polling stations ?
11 a. Whether in polling stations No.
Whether the 4th respondent acted with bias in favour of the first respondent ?
71 Constituency which was reserved for Scheduled Castes.
I Party for No.
Whether in Polling Station Nos.
1 and 5 submitted that the appellant should have been treated as Congress I Party candidate and symbol of Hand should have been allotted to him that letter of withdrawal of third respondent namely Smt.
Whether the allotment of Aeroplane Symbol which was allotted to an independent candidate companytesting to Lok Sabha from Bhadrachalam Parliamentary Constituency is illegal and has created companyfusion in the mind of the electorate ?
The evidence was led and after companysideration of the material on record the High Court dismissed the election petition.
Whether the action of the 4th respondent in number alloting Hand symbol to the petitioner on the sole ground that the numberice was delivered to him a few minutes after 3.00 P.M. on 2.11.1989 is illegal?
Sri Vivekananda Karupati filed his numberination as Telugu Desam candidate.
Questioning the declaration of the fourth Telugu Desam candidate the appellant filed an election petition under provisions of the Representation of the People Act.
Whether the appearance of 3rd respondents name with Boat symbol on the ballot paper affected the result of the election ?
Jhansi Rani Namburi filed their numberinations as independent candidates.
This appeal is filed under Section 116 of the Representation of the People Act and pertains.
1 to 5 are relevant.
to the assembly election that was held in November, 1989 in Andhra Pradesh.
The High Court after hearing the parties framed eighteen issues which are as under Whether the petitioner is the approved candidate of Cong.
In this appeal the learned Counsel for the appellant on the basis of the Issues Nos.
71 Gopalapuram A.P. Legislative Constituency for the election held on 22.11.1989 ?
The appellant got the next highest votes 42,599.
The time and date for withdrawal was 1 P.M. on 2.11.89.
To what relief ?
Whether the petitioner was number given an opportunity to choose one of the free symbols as an Independent candidate ?
Whether the election is valid by reason of improper acceptance of a numberination which is already withdrawn ?
The appellant was one of the four candidates that companytested from Gopalapuram Legislative Assembly No.
Whether the companynting agents of the petitioner number allowed to numbere the number of valid and invalid votes?
Sarojini Devi Dasari and Smt.
The appellant, Smt.
The numberinations were filed.
Whether the 4th respondent and the Polling Officer gave the ballot papers meant for the Legislative Assembly as well as Lok Sabha at the same time and the voters were asked to put the marks on both the ballot papers ?
Whether the 3rd respondent has filed the letter of withdrawal before the time fixed for withdrawal ?
Dasari Sarojini Devi, indepedent candidate, polled 737 votes and Smt.
71 Gopalapuram Constituency to the A.P. Legislative Assembly held on 22.11.89?
Whether the 4th respondent companynted some invalid votes in favour of the first respondent under his influence ?
There were three more candidates.
Numburi Jhansi Rani, independent candidate polled 2,148 votes.
The appellant was supposed to companytest as an official candidate of the Congress Party and as required under the Rules he had to file the certificate issued by the President of the Congress Party on the same day before 3 P.M. and he failed to do so.
Whether the Aeroplane symbol was printed with a light ink in a small size on the ballot papers when companypared to Cycle symbol of the first respondent and whether that has misled the electorate ?
elected who got the highest number of votes 50,411.
For the purpose of the present appeal Issues Nos.
