The petitioner claims to be a tax payer and he has filed this writ petition seeking the issue of a writ of certiorari to quash the notification in S.O. Ms. No. 2 Legislative Assembly Secretariat dt. 15th Nov. 1984, ordering, under Art.174(2)(b) of the Constitution, the dissolution of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, published in Tamil Nadu Government Gazette Extraordinary of the same date. He has also filed two interlocutory petitions, one W.M.P. 18175 of 1984 for staying all further proceedings in pursuance of the impugned notification and the other W.M.P. 18176 of 1984 for an interim injunction restraining the respondents 3 and 4, the Election Commission of India and the Chief Electoral Officer respectively from conducting elections to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, pending disposal of the writ petition.

2. The validity of the notification has been questioned by the petitioner on the following three grounds- (1) There is no properly constituted Council of Ministers, since the requirements of Art.163 of the Constitution are not satisfied. (2) Since there is no Chief Minister who alone can communicate the decision of the Council of Ministers to the Governor as