(1.) This is a petition filed by the petitioner challenging the election of the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and the Standing Committee and its Chairman and Members and the Consultative Committees elected on 31-3-1984 to be invalid and also for a declaration that the Municipal Corporation of Bhopal (Respondent 3) stands automatically dissolved on 26-3-1984. It is also sought that therefore the order of suspension passed against the petitioner by resolution of the Standing Committee, dated 24-7-1984, be also quashed as it is without any authority.
(2.) According to the petitioner, he had passed his M.B.B.S. Examination from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, in the year 1968 and in the year 1975 the Municipal Corporation, Bhopal, advertised the post of Medical Officer in the Corporation and the petitioner was appointed on 31-3-1975. It is alleged by the petitioner that although the Municipal Corporation, Bhopal, was constituted in the year 1967 but till 1983 there were no elections and ultimately on a petition filed in this Court a direction was issued by this Court for holding elections and it is alleged that ultimately the elections were held on 10th Feb 1983 and the names of the elected councillors were published in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette dated 5-3-1983. It is also alleged that the names of selected Corporators (Councillors) were notified in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette dated 16-3-1983 and the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor was notified in the Gazette on 30-4-1983. It is alleged that the first general meeting of the Corporation after election and selection of the councillors was held on 26-3-1983 under S.28 of the Municipal Corporation Act for electing a Mayor and a Deputy Mayor, ten members of the Standing Committee of the Corporation and its Chairman and the constitution of Special Committees.
(3.) It is also alleged by the petitioner that in this meeting dated 26-3-1983 Dr. R. K. Bisaria was elected as a Mayor of the Municipal Corporation and Shri Habib Ali was elected as a Deputy Mayor. Shri Ashok Kumar Bhawa was elected as Chairman of the Standing Committee along with nine members and seven Consultative Committees also were constituted.