( 1 ) BY this group to special civil applications the cooperative societies to diverse nature such as primary societies as well as federal societies extending service and credit facilities producer societies banking societies rendering banking services at urban district and state level sales and purchase unions at taluka district and state level challenge the Gujarat (Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Act. 1981 (hereinafter referred to as the impugned Act to 1981) and the Gujarat Co-operative Societies (Amendment and Validation) Act 1982 (hereinafter referred to as the impugned Act to 1982) by which the Gujarat Co operative Societies Act 1961 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) has been substantially amended. Since challenge to these two amending Acts in all these special civil applications is almost on identical grounds and the main contentions urged by the learned counsel appearing in these matters are also identical we propose to dispose to the entire group by this common order. However in order to appreciate these contentions in the proper perspective we would set out a few facts by way to model facts from those special civil applications which were d