V.Mishra, J.

1. These are applications under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India for quashing Annexure 1 which is copy of a notification declaring constitution of municipal corporation at Muzaffarpur and also for quashing the order appointing Sri Madan Mohan Jha respondent No. 7 as Administrator of the Municipal Corporation (copy of order not annexed). Since the reliefs sought in both the applications are the same, they have been heard together.

2. The petitioners of C. W. J. C. No. 1324 of 1981 are the Chairman and the Commissioners of the erstwhile Muzaffarpur Municipality. Through a petition filed on 11-5-1981. 19 persons came to intervene out of whom 9 are Mukhiyas and 6 are surpanchas of some of the Gram Panchayats which have been included within the limits of the porporation. There is also one punch of a Gram Panchayat. Petitioners Nos. 16 and 17 are the Secretary and General Secretary of the Taxation Bar Association, Muzaffarpur, petitioner No. 18 is the General Secretary of the Bar Association, Muzaffarpur and petitioner No 19 is the Convenor of Sawami Sahajanand Saraswati Smarak Samiti. They also support the original petitioners. On the date of the ad