🔵 Kerala Co-operative Societies Act - S.28(2A), which restricts committee members of Credit Societies from contesting elections for more than three consecutive terms, is constitutionally valid 🔵 Election - Right to contest an election is a statutory right and not a common law right - It is a special right created by the Statute and can only be exercised on the conditions laid down by the Statute itself 🔵 Kerala Co-operative Societies Act - State Legislature has competence to prescribe eligibility conditions and term restrictions for elections to Co-operative Societies *2025 KHC OnLine 570*