Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has ordered dissolution of the existing Legislative Assembly of Telangana on Monday.
The Governor’s office said, in a release on Monday, that the Governor had dissolved the Assembly in exercise of powers conferred on her under Article 174 (2) (b) of the Constitution with effect from the afternoon of Sunday, the time by which most results of the just concluded Assembly elections were released. Dr. Tamilisai took the decision following a resolution submitted by the Council of Ministers of the second Telangana State Legislative Assembly on Sunday late afternoon.
The Governor’s consent follows the gazette notification issued by the General Administration Department about the list of elected members to the Assembly in the just concluded elections counting for which was held on Sunday. The notification included the constituencies and the names of the elected members to the new Assembly under Section 73 of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1951.
