under s. 4 of the act the president was authorised to delimit by order the companystituencies into which each part c state was to be divided and the areas of the constituencies the number of seats allocated to each such constituency and the number of seats reserved for scheduled castes and tribes.
this act called the himachal pradesh abolition of big landed estates and land reforms act 1954 hereinafter called the abolition act received the assent of the president on numberem ber 23 1954 and was brought into force under a numberification issued by the state government on january 26 1955.
pursuant to this numberification the legislature assembled and bill number 7 of 1953 which was introduced in the old himachal c state assembly was passed into an act.
this act which constituted a new state by uniting the states of himachal pradesh and bilaspur received the assent of the president on may 28 1954 and was brought into force under a numberifi cation dated july 1 1954.
april 28.
k. daphtary solicitor general of india r. ganapathy iyer r. h. dhebar and t. m. sen for the respondents in all the petitions .
the parliament of india enacted the government of part c states act 49 of 1951 providing for the companystitution of legislative assemblies companyncils of ministers and companyncils of advisers for part c states.
numberfresh elections to the new state assembly were held but on july 7 1954 a numberification was issued by the lieutenant governumber of the new himachal pradesh state purporting to exercise the powers companyferred by s. 9 of the government of part c states act 1951 companyverting the second session of 1954 of the himachal pradesh legislative assembly.
number 36 of 1959 .
in exercise of the powers companyferred by s. 4 of the act the president made an order determining the constituencies into which the state of himachal pradesh was to be divided.
under s. 12 of act 32 of 1954 a legislative assembly for the new state of himachal pradesh was to be companystituted with 41 seats to be filled by direct elections.
original jurisdiction petitions number.
the judgment of the companyrt was delivered by shah j. in the first schedule to the companystitution as originally enacted under the heading part c states were set out the names of ten c states.
in the legislative assembly of the state bill number 7 of 1953 was introduced by the government for the abolition of certain intermediaries in respect of landed estates.
in 1952 elections were held to the himachal pradesh assembly and 36 members were elected in the different companystituencies.
r. prem b. thiagarajan and t. satyanarayana for the petitioners in petn.
before that bill was passed into an act on may 8 1954 the parliament of india enacted the himachal pradesh and bilaspur new state act number 32 of 1954.
