1. - The petitioner has stated that he was appointed as a Mistry in the Power House and Pumping Sub-division of the Chambal Project at Kota on January 1, 1957. He was transferred to the Chambal workshop from April 1, 1964. He was then taken on the work-charged establishment as a Time Keeper with effect from July 9, 1964. He has stated that he became the President of Chambal Workshop Karamchari Sangh, Kota, and fought for the rights and privileges of the workers, which annoyed his superiors as well as the State Government. A retrenchment notice was served on him on April 26, 1967, but he made a representation and that notice was withdrawn. However another notice (Ex. P/2) of retrenchment was issued on January 16, 1968, on the ground that the work in stage II of the Project was nearing completion and the services of the petitioner were not required with effect from February 20, 1968. The petitioner made representations against that notice also, but to no avail. He has therefore challenged the order of his retrenchment in the present writ petition, on a number of grounds, and I shall refer to those of the grounds which have been selected by his learned Counsel for my consider