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Andhra Pradesh to Scrap Legislative Council
January 30 , 2020
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- The Andhra Pradesh (AP) assembly has passed a resolution to abolish the state’s Legislative Council.
- The Andhra Pradesh government has to send the resolution to the Governor for his approval and then to the Parliament for ratification.
- Andhra Pradesh’s Legislative Council, set up in 1958, was abolished in 1985, then reconstituted in 2007.
- According to article 169, The Parliament can abolish a Legislative Council (where it already exists) or create it (where it does not exist) by a simple majority, if the legislative assembly of the concerned state, by a special majority.
- Besides Andhra Pradesh, the other states having Legislative Councils are Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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