This Election Petition is filed to direct the recount and scrutiny of all the ballot papers and to declare the election of the first respondent as elected from 98-Jangaon Assembly Constituency, Warangal District in the General Elections held in the month of April 2009 as illegal, null and void and to declare the petitioner as duly elected from 98-Jangaon Assembly Constituency, Warangal District in the said General Elections and to award the costs of the petition.

2. The brief facts pleaded in the election petition are as follows:

In the General Elections to the A.P. Legislative Assembly held on 16.04.2009 through the system of Electronic Voting Machines, the petitioner contested as a nominee of T.R.S. party while the first respondent contested as nominee of Indian National Congress. In all, 11 candidates contested in the election.

3. It is submitted by the petitioner that he contested as a nominee of T.R.S. party in 2004 elections from 261-Cheryal Assembly Constituency. In the said election, there was alliance between T.R.S. party, Congress Party and both communist parties. In that election, the petitioner was elected by huge majority of 25,254 votes against the T.D.P. candi