S.S.SANDHAWALIA, J.

1. A multipronged attack against the validity and the constitutionality of the Punjab Wheat (Restriction of Stock by Producers) Order 1974 has been forcefully levelled in this writ petition. It arises from facts which are not in serious dispute but to which detailed reference is nevertheless necessary.

2. Partap Singh Kadian, petitioner, claims to be what may compendiously be termed as a progressive farmer of the State of Punjab. He is a Graduate in Agriculture and has adopted farming as his profession and carries on mechanical cultivation of an area of 27 acres of land situated in village Kadian, Tahsil and district Ludhiana. He has been a former member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly and is now the General Secretary of the Punjab Khetibari Zamindari Union which claims to have a membership of more than seventy-five thousand farmers. The writ petition is therefore, claimed to be more or less of a representative character on behalf of the producers.

3. The petitioner claims to have a complete know-how of the modern mechanized agriculture and has given full details of an investment of Rs. 97,500.00 regarding the machinery and other equipment necessary f