( 1 ) IN the instant writ petition the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs :

" (a) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned declaration dated 8. 3. 2001 (Annexure-6 to this writ petition) declaring Balwant respondent No. 4 as elected pramukh Kshettra Panchayat Bhathat, district Gorakhpur ; (b) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding respondent not to administer oath of office to respondent No. 4 for elected post of Pramukh Kshettra Panchayat bhathat, district Gorakhpur ; (c) issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondents to treat the petitioner as validly elected Pramukh of Kshettra Panchayat, Bhathat, district Gorakhpur in pursuance of the declaration dated 8. 3. 2001 (Annexure-4 to this writ petition) ; (d) issue any other suitable writ, order or direction which this Honble Court may deem just and proper under the facts and circumstances of the case ; (e) award the costs of this writ petition. "

( 2 ) THE short facts giving rise to the present petition are that the election process for the election of Pramukh and Up Pramukhs of Kshettra Pancha