ORDER:

1. This writ petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to declare the action of the respondents in publishing the Electoral Roll without following the procedural instructions and rules pertaining to the Ward No.78 of Respondent Corporation with wrong entries in the total BC voters as 1026 instead of around 2500 voters and SC voters as 431 instead of around 2000 and not considering the objections submitted by the petitioners in the form of representations dated 10.02.2020, 15.02.2020 and 19.02.2020 and 07.02.2020 as illegal and arbitrary and consequently direct the Respondents to consider the Representations of the petitioners 10.02.2020, 15.02.2020 and 19.02.2020, correct the wrong entries in electoral roll of ward number 78 of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation and take steps to rectify the same.

2. Petitioner No.1 is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxisst). Petitioner No.2 is ex-councilor of the Ward No.78. Petitioner Nos.3 and 4 are voters of the Ward.

3. It is the case of the petitioners that the ordinary elections to Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation are to be held shortly along with other Municipal Corpora