ORDER :

B. Siva Sankara Rao, J.

1. One Sri Madiraju Venkata Ramana Raju filed this election petition under Sections 81 r/w 83, 100(1)(a) and (d) Clause (i) of the Representation of People Act, 1951 (for short 'the RP Act'), against eight (8) respondents on 26.04.2014 viz., (R.1)-Sri P. Ramachandra Reddy, (R.2)-Sri S.K. Venkatramana Reddy, (R.3)-Sri G. Ramesh Babu, (R.4)-Sri O. Altaf Basha, (R.5)-Sri S. Noushand, (R.6)-Sri C.S. Pavan Kumar Reddy, (R.7)-Sri A. Prameela and (R.8)-Sri K.S. Rama Rao. The Returning Officer-R8 was deleted from the array as per orders of this Court dated 08.08.2018 in I.A. No. 1 of 2018 for no necessity to implead the Returning Officer as party to the election petition.

1(a). All the respondent Nos. 1 to 7 supra and the election petitioner were the contested candidates for the election of the Punganur Assembly Constituency No. 284, held on 07.05.2014 viz., the election petitioner was fielded by Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and 1st respondent to the election petition was fielded by Yuvajana Shramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leave about some of the others are even independent candidates. The election results that were declared on 16.05.2014 shows R.1-Sri P. Ram