The Supreme Court Wednesday agreed to hear a lawsuit alleging there was a constitutional crisis in Andhra Pradesh because 139 legislators from various parties had submitted their resignations over the issue of creating a separate state of Telangana. <\/p>\n
Andhra Pradesh has 294 legislators. <\/p>\n
Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan agreed to hear the suit on Feb 1 after former MP M. Narayan Reddy said there was a constitutional crisis because assembly speaker N. Kiran Kumar Reddy was “sitting over the resignations” without either accepting or rejecting them. <\/p>\n
The lawsuit sought the apex court’s intervention to solve the crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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