Vijayawada: The Supreme Court will examine how Telangana was formed when the state of Andhra Pradesh was split up, a process that has been criticised even by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Former Congress MP Vundavilli Arun Kumar filed a case against the legal validity of the AP Reorganisation Act 2014, which constituted the two states, on Friday, and Chief Justice of India N. V. Ramana agreed to hear it.
After the bifurcation eight years ago, the Congress leader raced to the Supreme Court to challenge the verdict. He changed his petition, however, and asked the Centre to issue recommendations on how to proceed with the division and establishment of new states in order to avoid the injustice meted out to the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.
Senior advocate Prashant Bhusan brought up the topic of the former MP's pending plea before the CJI-led bench, which consented to hold a hearing on it. As a result, the court ordered the registrar to schedule a hearing for the case within the next week.
Soon after the state's bifurcation in 2014, the MP filed two urgent petitions in the Supreme Court, questioning the Act's constitutionality as well as the mechanism used to divide the erstwhile AP into residuary AP and the new state of Telangana.
His contention was that, while the Centre claimed that the AP Reorganisation Act was based on Article 3 of the Constitution, which deals with the formation of new states, the alteration of areas, boundaries, or names of new states, no proper justification for the Act and bifurcation of the state was provided.
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