NEWS

Andhra Assembly withdraws resolution to abolish Legislative Council. Government had passed the statutory resolution in January 2020 under Article 169(1) of the Constitution

ABOUT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

• Upper house in those states of India that have a bicameral state legislature
• At present 6 states have a State Legislative Council. These are Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh The latest state to have a council is Telangana.
• Functions
  • To represent the people
  • To legislate and to scrutinise the executive government as a ‘House of review’.
• Provides an alternative and complementary system of representation to that of the Legislative Assembly.
• According to Article 169, the Parliament can create or abolish the SLC of a state if that state’s legislature passes a resolution for that with a special majority.