1. Heard Dr. Lal Bahadur, petitioner (in person) as well as Sri O.P. Srivastava, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri V.K. Dubey, learned counsel for respondent no. 2 - Election Commission of India.

2. The petitioner who has appeared in person has assailed the action of the Returning Officer whereby his nomination papers have been rejected by means of order dated 24.01.2019.

3. The petitioner has prayed for a writ of certiorari for quashing of the order dated 24.04.2019, passed by the Returning Officer. Further prayer has been made by the petitioner for directing the respondents to accept nomination papers of the petitioner and permit him to contest the elections of 55 Parliamentary Constituency, Ambedkar Nagar which is scheduled to be held on 12.05.2019.

4. The petitioner has submitted that with a view to contest the Parliamentary Elections for Ambedkar Nagar constituency, he has filed his nomination papers on 23.04.2019 in three sets and has also completed all the formalities and annexed all the required documents at the time of filing his nomination papers. The Returning Officer has raised objection that in Form 26 as well as in other columns some spaces were left vaca