(1.) The three writ petitions have been preferred by the petitioners against rejection of two nomination papers and acceptance of one nomination paper, submitted to contest in the Assam Panchayat General Election, scheduled to be held in two phases on 2/5/2025 and 7/5/2025 respectively.
(2.) All the three writ petitions, instituted under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, involve similar nature of issues.
(3.) The learned counsel for the petitioners have expressed urgency and the learned counsel for the contesting respondents have raised a preliminary point of nonmaintainability of the writ petitions. Therefore, all the three writ petitions are taken up together first for consideration on the preliminary point, at the instance of the learned counsel for the parties.