An unsurprising judgment

As the Central authorities prepares for the adjacent delimitation exercise, which volition redraw constituency boundaries based connected the archetypal Census aft 2026, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were waiting for their Assembly constituencies to beryllium increased, arsenic promised successful the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014. However, a caller Supreme Court judgment has dampened their hopes.

According to the 2014 Act, the fig of seats successful the Legislative Assemblies was to beryllium accrued from 175 to 225 successful Andhra Pradesh and from 119 to 153 successful Telangana. However, the delimitation process was stalled arsenic the Census could not beryllium conducted successful 2020-21 — archetypal due to the fact that of the COVID-19 pandemic and aboriginal for assorted different reasons.