THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU WRIT PETITION No.8544 OF 2007 DATED: 28.08.2009 Between: Pyla Jagannadham @ Jagannadha Rao and others .. Petitioners And The State of A.P. rep. by its Principal Secretary, Agriculture & Cooperation (Cooperative IV Dept.) Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. .. Respondents ORDER: Originally, the petitioners, who claim to be the members of the 4th respondent Society namely Anakapalli Rural Electric Cooperative Society, Kasimkota, Visakhapatnam District, filed the present writ petition, questioning the action of the respondents in not holding elections to the said Society for more than 14 years and thus seeking directions to the respondents for conducting elections to the said Society. Subsequently, by filing an amendment application in W.P.M.P.No.22052 of 2009, which is ordered today, they are also challenging the G.O.Rt.No.614 Agriculture and Cooperation (Coop.I) Department dated 03.06.2009 issued by the Government, extending the term of the Person-In-Charge, who is presently managing the affairs of the 4th respondent Society. There is no necessity of going into all the details. A detailed counter-affidavit has been filed by respondents 1 and 3, whereunder, while indicating the other reasons for not conducting elections to the 4th respondent Society since 1994, it is stated that the Government has taken a decision to merge four working Rural Electric Cooperative Societies including the 4th respondent Society with A.P. Transco, vide Government Memo No.2193/2007/Agriculture & Cooperation (Coop.VII) Department dated 05.04.2007, and since the modalities of the merger are under way, no elections for five year tenure can be conducted for the 4th respondent Society at this juncture. In view of the aforesaid counter averments, the respondents are directed to complete the process of merger of the 4th respondent Society with the A.P. Transco within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. However, if no such merger is taken place within that time, the respondents shall conduct elections to the 4th respondent Society within a period of two months thereafter. With the above directions, the writ petition is disposed of. No order as to costs. _________________ JUSTICE C.V. RAMULU 28th August, 2009. IBL