Bill on more Assembly seats in Lok Sabha

Hyderabad: Karimnagar TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar on Friday introduced three private Bills in the Lok Sabha, including one on increasing the number of Assembly seats in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states.

While introducing the Bill on Private Members day, Mr Kumar said though Section 26 of the AP Reorganisation Act allows increasing the number of Assembly seats both in TS and AP, with a specific rider that it be done subject to the provisions of Article 170 of the Constitution.

Mr Kumar introduced the Bill for increasing the number of Assembly seats by removing the clause on Article 170. The private Bill also specifies the delimitation of Assembly constituencies to enable increasing the seats from 119 to 153 in TS and from 175 to 225 seats in AP within two years.

The other Bills pertained to establishment of separate High Courts for both the states, and to vesting the power of establishing Supreme Court Benches with the President instead of the Chief Justice of India.
 

 

 

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