J.R. Chopra, J.-These two writ petitions raise common questions of law and, therefore, they were heard together and are being disposed of by a common judgment.

2. Succinctly stated, the facts of these two writ petitions are as under:

(1) Facts of Jan Mohd.’s case. The case of the petitioner Jan Mohd. is that in the general elections of Municipal Board, Sardarshahar, 30 members were elected and out of them, 15 belongs to Bhartiya Janta Party and the remaining 15 belongs to Congress-I party and in the election of Chairman of Municipal Board, Sardarshahar, in the toss, the petitioner was elected as Chairman of the Board. According to him, on account of political reasons, members of the Bhartiya Janta Party, which is presently ruling in the State, always tried to remove the petitioner from the Chairmanship. He has submitted that recently on the complaints of the members of the ruling party in the State about the affairs of the Board, an enquiry was conducted by the Deputy Director, Local Self Government Department, Jaipur and in that enquiry, he has submitted that he is nowhere involved in any of the works executed, and every work was executed after the approval of the Board. I