G. RADHAKRISHNA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THE 2nd respondent herein who is the Election Officer issued a Notification on 2-1-1992 to hold the elections to the Managing Committee of the Primary Agricultural Co-operative Credit Society, Chin-takunta Village, Andole Mandal, Medak District. The petitioner has filed his nomination for membership of the Managing Committee for Ward No. 2, mentioning his serial No. 984 in the voter s list prepared for this purpose. Unfortunately, the 2nd respondent rejected the nomination of the petitioner by the impugned order dated IO-1-I992 on the sole ground that his name at Serial No. 984 is not tallied whereas his serial number is at 982. Assailing the validity of this rejection order, the petitioner filed this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to set aside the impugned order and direct the respondents to treat his nomination as valid.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the election programme given by the 2nd respondent, 9-1-1992 is the date for filing nominations, 10-1-1992 is the date for scrutiny, 11-1-1992 is the date of withdrawal and 23-1-1992 is elections to Members of the Managing Committee and 29-1-1992 is the election day to the post

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