1. This is an appeal by Narayan Kaktu Karwade under Section 116A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (No. XLIII of 1951), hereinafter referred to as the Act.

2. There was an election held on 11-3-1957 in the Nagpur constituency of the Bombay Legislative Assembly. This constituency was a double seat constituency, out of which one seat was reserved for the scheduled castes and the other seat was a general seat. For the seat reserved for the scheduled castes the present appellant, Shrimati Anasuyabai Borkar, Shrimati Nagabai Vaidya, Shri Vinayakrao Changole and the first respondent were the duly nominated candidates. Before the due date, the appellant withdrew and the contest remained between the aforesaid remaining four candidates. As regards the general seat, the nominated candidates were the second respondent, Shri Wamanrao Gawande and Shri Mancharsha Awari. Both the respondents were candidates put up by Samyukta Maharashtra Samiti. The appellant was dummy candidate put up by the Congress. Shrimati Anasuyabai Borkar was the principal candidate put up by the Congress. So far as the general seat was concerned, Shri Gawande was the candidate put up by the Congress an