JITENDRA HIMMAT BIRARIS Vs. KIRAN GULABRAO PATIL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) All these petitions involve common question of law and are . based on same factual matrix, as such are decided together.

(2.) The petitioners are elected as councillors of Zilla Parishad, Dhule in the General Elections of 2008 having contested the said elections as belonging to Nationalist Congress Party (hereinafter called as "N.C.P." for the sake of brevity). The party position of elected councillors is as under : <p><table class = tablestyle width="75%" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="font-family:Verdana"> <tr> <td width="8%"><div align="center">1.</div></td> <td width="83%">Indian National Congress :</td> <td width="9%"><div align="center">21</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center">2.</div></td> <td>Nationalist Congress Party :</td> <td><div align="center">08</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center">3.</div></td> <td>Shiv Sena :</td> <td><div align="center">14</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center">4.</div></td> <td>Bhartiya Janta Party :</td> <td><div align="center">09</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><div align="center">5.</div></td> <td>Independent :</td> <td><div align="center">03</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp;</strong> <div align="center"></div></td> <td><div align="center"><strong>Total :</strong></div></td> <td><div align="center"><strong>55</strong></div></td> </tr> </table>

(3.) After the declaration of the result, the Returning Officer called special meeting for the election of the President and Vice President of Zilla Parishad Dhule to be held on 30th December, 2008 at 3.00 p.m. In the said special meeting one Sudhir Sudhakar Jadhav representing Shiv Sena party was elected as President and Bharat Nanabhau Ise representing Bhartiya Janta Party was elected as Vice President. The petitioners cast vote to these persons for the post of President and Vice President.