THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 19916 OF 2008 O R D E R: The petitioner is an Ex-Sarpanch of Hangerga village, Kotagiri Mandal, Nizamabad District. Against the President of the Mandal Parishad, by name P. Shanker, a motion of No-conﬁdence was initiated. The meeting, to consider the No-conﬁdence motion was to take place on 4.9.2008. Two days before that date i.e. 2.9.2008, Shanker is said to have resigned to the oﬃce of President, thereby, the necessity to take up the motion of No-conﬁdence, was obviated. To ﬁll the resultant vacancy, the State Election Commission, the 1st respondent herein, issued notiﬁcation dated 6.9.2008, declaring the election programme and ﬁxing 16.9.2008, as the date of election. Petitioner contends that the Ex-President, Mr.Shanker, has resigned to the membership also on 6.9.2008, leading to the vacancy of the Hangarga Territorial Constituency. The petitioner contends that for the resultant vacancy of MPTC, he intends to contest and that the election to the oﬃce of President must be deferred, till the vacancy of MPTC member is filled. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Government Pleader for Panchayat Raj. With each passing day, the process of democracy in various institutions is assuming new dimensions. Faced with a motion of No-conﬁdence, the President had submitted his resignation, and obviously with a view to thwart the ﬁlling up of the resultant vacancy, he appears to have submitted resignation to the MPTC also. The petitioner hopes that he would be elected as MPTC, in the place of previous member, and he wants the election to the resultant vacancy of President, to be postponed till this process is carried out. This court is not inclined to accede to the request of the petitioner. The notiﬁcation is dated 6.9.2008 and the alleged resignation to the MPTC is said to be on the same day. No provision is cited, that has the eﬀect of invalidating the impugned notiﬁcation. Even assuming that the MPTC had submitted his resignation and it was accepted, much before the date of election notiﬁcation, there is nothing in law, which prevents the 1st respondent from ﬁlling the resultant vacancy of the President. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________ 12th September 2008 PAN