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The Supreme Court agreed to examine the constitutional validity of the March 1, 2014 notification to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh into two states from June 2nd, 2014.

Earlier, the apex court admitted a batch of petitions filed by former CM of united AP, Kiran Kumar Reddy, former ministers and MLAs to declare the AP Reorganization Act 2014 as unconstitutional as being violative of the basic structure of the Constitution, having been enacted without following the due procedure of law.

The petitioners argued to reexamine the validity,alleging that the public is unaware of what exactly happened. There was no formal request from AP for bifurcation, when Telanganites demanded the new state, the CJI pointed out. However, additional solicitor-general P.S. Patwalia said due procedure was followed.

A Committee was set up and its recommendations were considered and only thereafter the bifurcation took place. The Bench said it would examine the validity and admitted the petitions. The Bench said the matter would come up for final hearing in due course.