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11. Assuming without admitting that the purported enrollment form only expresses desire to become the member, the filing of such form does not make the applicant a member. The membership of a private association can never be a matter of right. Some certificate or membership is necessary to show and establish that the particular person is admitted as a member of the organisation. Admittedly, the original of the alleged enrollment form is not available in the record of proceedings which was in the custody of the Speaker. That after passing of the impugned order of disqualification, the then Speaker resigned and carried away the record of the proceedings and returned it to the Speaker's Office only on 2.3.2005. This was clearly intended to show that there was original available and may have been misplaced to avoid presumption of forgery by respondent No. 1. The inspection of the original documents, including the document dated 16.11.2002 was given to the petitioner and mention of it in the Roznama dated 19.2.2005 is completely false and is also evident from the fact that there is no original of the document dated 16.11.2002 in the record of the Speaker. The Affidavit of Satish Dhond, General Secretary of BJP produced on 19.2.2005 was objected to by the petitioner as false. The said affidavit is also not verified according to law.