Andhra state was created in 1953 from the Telugu speaking Northern districts of Madras state.It consists of two distinct cultural regions – Rayalaseema and Coastal Andhra.It hadn’t included few telugu speaking areas from Hyderabad state.On November 1,1956 Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India under the States Reorganisation Act,1956 which is formed by merging Andhra state with Telangana region of Hyderabad state.Later by Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act,2014 Telangana state was separated back out of Andhra Pradesh on June 2,2014 creating the new states i.e., Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh.T he united AP Legislative Assembly have 294 Legislative Assembly seats which were distributed between the AP and Telangana i.e., 175 seats for AP and 119 seats were allocated to State of Telangana.

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