( 1 ) THE present Election petition has been filed by the petitioner claiming himself to be a voter of Assembly constituency No. 83 Kotma to challenge the elections of the said constituency.

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the petitioner, the Assembly Elections were notified as per the provisions of S. 31 of Representation of the People Act. According to the programme, the date for submission of the nomination form was 23-10-93 to 30-10-93. The date of scrutiny was 1-11-93. The date for the withdrawal was 3-11-93 and the date for polling was fixed on 24-11-93. The respondent No. 1 filed nomination as candidate of National Congress (I) for the Assembly Constituency, Kotma (No. 83 ). According to the petitioner she had filed the nomination paper and declared her name as Rajesh Nandini Singh wife of Dalveer Singh. As alleged the said name Rajesh Nandini Singh was not recorded in the voters list of the said Assembly for the year 1993. On the other hand, at serial No. 18 name of Rajeshwari Singh wife of Dalveer Singh was recorded in the voters list. The respondent No. 1 (The Returned Candidate) filed her nomination somewhere on29 or 30-11-1993. The grievance of the petitioner is that t