In the first years since its creation in post-independence India, the state of Andhra Pradesh worked under a
unicameral parliamentary system. On 5 December 1956, the Andhra Pradesh Vidhana Sabha passed a resolution calling for the creation of an upper house, the Vidhan Parishad, to transition to a
bicameral system. The members of the majority party/coalition in the lower house would be the ruling party of the upper house, regardless of number. The house will have a chairman who conducts day-to-day affairs, rather than a speaker. The Vidhan Parishad was formed officially on 1 July 1958 under article 169 of the
Constitution of India. The first
President of India,
Rajendra Prasad inaugurated the Vidhan Parishad on 8 July 1958. However, the move was criticised by the opposition's as an attempt by the then-ruling party, the
Telugu Desam Party (TDP), to deny their main political opposition, the
Indian National Congress (I) of influence in the state government and the control of the upper house, which could delay TDP-sponsored legislation and where the TDP held no seats. on 27 January 2020 to make way for the YSRCP-sponsored capital decentralization bill which has been stalled by the opposition TDP which had majority in the council, as the chairman decided to send the two bills pertaining to the decentralization of the capital that are the
Andhra Pradesh Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of All Regions Act, 2020 and the
Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority Repeal Act, 2020 to a select committee. The resolution was later withdrawn by the ruling YSRCP as it gained a majority by then in the council making a way to pass it's sponsored bills and with no response from the
Parliament of India regarding the decision to abolish the council. == Composition ==