( 1 ) THIS is an application under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuing an appropriate direction to the Government of Andhra Pradesh restraining it from functioning under the provisions of the States Reorganisation act (hereinafter referred to as the Act ).

( 2 ) ON 31st August, 1956, the Parliament of the Republic of India passed the states Reorganisation Act, 1956, to come into effect from the 1st day of November, 1956, providing, inter alia, for the disintegration of the State of Hyderabad and incorporating different parts of the same with other States. The petitioner, who is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the defunct Hyderabad State, has attacked the validity of the Act on various grounds. He alleged that the prime Minister of India made up his mind to disintegrate the State of Hyderabad without consulting the Cabinet and brought it about by taking the necessary steps and that the Committees appointed, the Governments concerned, the Legislatures of the States and the Parliament faithfully implemented his scheme. He averred that the Hyderabad State could only be distintegrated by convening a constitutional assembly to achieve that o