( 1 ) THE petitioner, who is a practising advocate and has absolutely nothing to do with admission against 20% B-category seats in Under Graduate Professional Course in engineering (including Technology) has filed this petition in the name of public interest litigation for striking down the Andhra Pradesh unaided Non-Minority Professional institutions (Regulation of Admissions into under-graduate Professional Courses through common Entrance Test) Rules, 2006 (for short, the Rules) and for issue of a mandamus to respondent Nos. 1 to 3 to ensure that admissions are made by respondent nos. 4 and 5 colleges after issuing notification in leading Telugu, Hindi and Urdu newspapers and national newspapers. He has further prayed for issue of a direction to respondent nos. 4 and 5 to supply application forms to all the candidates and make admissions in a fair manner as per merit.

( 2 ) IN the affidavit filed by him, the petitioner has tried to establish his locus to file litigation pro bono publico by stating that he had filed writ Petition No. 1998 of 2005 for declaring the strike by the Andhra Pradesh State Road transport Corporation employees as illegal. He has then