C.T. Ravikumar, J.

1. The petitioners in the captioned writ petitions are the respondents in the original petitions filed by the common first respondent herein, before the Kerala State Election Commission (for short 'the Commission'). They filed interlocutory applications under Order VI Rule 17 of the Civil Procedure Code (for short the 'Code') in the respective original petitions for amending the objections filed by them. It is the dismissal of those applications that constrained the petitioners to come up with the captioned writ petitions assailing the respective orders passed against them. For the sake of convenience, the number of the writ petitions, the number of the original petitions from which each of these writ petitions arose and the number of the interlocutory applications dismissed by the Commission are tabulated as hereunder:-