Daulat Ram vs State Of Rajasthan And Ors. on 29 August, 1959
This means that every candidate for the election of a Chairman must have at least 2 members
to sponsor and endorse his candidature and that is why it seems to have been provided in Rule 14 that the election petition should be signed it least by three members. Moreover, if the law requires that an election petition should be signed by at least 3 members, it would not be proper for this Court to allow the petitioner to circumvent that law. It may be pointed out that in Milakhraj v, Jagdish Chandra, AIR 1957 Raj 293, a writ application was filed by a voter while Section 19 of the Rajasthan Town Municipalities Act, 1951, required that an election petition could be filed either by a candidate who stood for election or any 10 persons qualified to vote at the election. It was held that :