( 1 ) SINCE all these writ petitions involved common question of law, they have been taken up together, at the instance of the counsel appearing on behalf of the parties from both sides.

( 2 ) HEARD Sri Nandigam Krishna Rao, leading on behalf of the other counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners and learned government pleader for co-operation and agriculture.

( 3 ) IN all these writ petitions the petitioners herein by way of writ of mandamus seeking declaration that the proceedings issued by the respondent appointing persons-in-charge to the primary agricultural co-operative societies in the State of A. P. In the place of the elected chairman of the persons-in-charge committees, as illegal and arbitrary and violative of principles of natural Justice, apart from being in the teeth of the principles and directions given by the division bench of this court in M. Ranga Reddy v. State of A. P. , AIR 1989 AP 81 = 1990 (3) ALT 231, and to further direct the respondents to continue the petitioners as chairman of the persons-in-charge committees of each individual societies.

( 4 ) THE case of the petitioners in brief is that the petitioner was elected as a president