M. N. CHANDURKAR (C J)

The petitioners in all these Writ Petitions are members of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly. The Tamil Nadu legislative Assembly passed resolution on 22nd December, 1986 declaring that the petitioners were unfit to continue as members of the House and that they were expelled from the membership of the House and that they could not continue to be members of the House. It was further resolved that their seats became vacant. The resolution passed by the Assembly was on a motion moved by the Leader of the House. The English translation of the resolution original of which was in Tamil as adopted by the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly on 22nd December, 1986 as published in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary of the same date, reads as follows :-

"Whereas the Executive Committee of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam resolved in its meeting held on 9th November, 1986 at Coimbatore that the portion of Part XVII of the Constitution of India which provides for Hindi to be the Official Language of the Union should be burnt in Public meetings, to be held between the period commencing on 17th November, 1986 and ending with 17th December, 1986 in various