SC to take up Andhra resignations crisis

The Supreme Court 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.

The Supreme Court on 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.

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Andhra Pradesh has 294 legislators.

Chief Justice KG 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.

The lawsuit sought the apex court's intervention to solve the crisis.