The Supreme Court on Tuesday advanced to February 22 the hearing of a writ petition challenging the announcement made by the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on December 9, 2009 relating to a separate Telangana State.
A Bench comprising of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justices R.M. Lodha and Deepak Verma posted the matter for February 22 on the plea of Bondada Purushottam Yadav, an advocate from Andhra Pradesh, that the matter be listed urgently.
The petition was initially listed for March 29.
In a brief hearing, Mr. Yadav argued that such statements creates rifts among the communities having stakes in the matter and are inimical to the national interests.
The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed a PIL filed by a former Member of Parliament M. Narayan Reddy seeking a direction to the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker to accept the resignation submitted by 139 MLAs on the Telangana issue.
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