( 1 ) THIS old writ petition though filed for final hearing earlier along with the Letters Patent Appeal No. 203 of 1980 unfortunately could not be taken up earlier though the said appeal was disposed of long ago. The petition has been filed by one citizen claiming to be a voter on the voters list to elect agriculturists prepared for the purpose of constitution of the Agriculture Produce Market Committee Valsad. He was holding at the relevant time the Office of the Vice-President-President of the said Committee. He filed the petition at the time when the elections for the constitution of the New Committee under sec. 11 of the Gujarat Agricultural Produce Market Act 1963 hereinafter to as the Act for brevitys sake were in the offing. Sec. 11 (1) of the said Act provides that the market committee consists of various types of members listed in clauses (i) to (v) but in this petition we are concerned with eight agriculturists to be elected by members of the Managing Committees of co-operative societies (other than co-operative marketing societies) dispensing agricultural credit in the market area. The petitioner stated that as per the election programme the nomination fo