P.K. Balasubramanyan, J.

The appellant is the petitioner in the Original Petition. The Original Petition was filed praying for the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash Ext. P2 a notice issued to the petitioner by the Secretary of Kizhakkambalam Grama Panchayat informing him that as per S.35(k) of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act he had become disqualified to be a member of the Kizhakkambalam Panchayat with effect from 14.1.1998 and Ext. P9 copy of an order passed by the State Election Commission rejecting the applications filed by two members of the Kizhakkambalam Panchayat requesting the Election Commission to make an enquiry into the question whether the petitioner in the Original Petition had lost his membership and a petition filed by the petitioner himself complaining that the Panchayat was in error in not restoring to him his membership in the Panchayat on the basis of his application made under S.37(2) of the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act. There is a prayer for a declaration that the petitioner continues to be a member of the Kizhakkambalam Grama Panchayat and is a duly elected Vice President of toe Panchayat and to restrain the Kizhakkambalam Grama Panchayat from electi