Leader of Opposition standing: Andhra Pradesh HC to listen to Jagan Mohan Reddys plea in 4 weeks

The Andhra Pradesh High Court (HC) on Wednesday (September 24, 2025) posted YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president and Pulivendula MLA Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s writ petition that challenged the Andhra Pradesh Legislature’s alleged refusal to confer Leader of the Opposition (LoP) standing within the Assembly, for additional listening to after 4 weeks, directing the respondents to file counters. 

The former CM argued that the ruling handed by the Speaker on February 5, 2025 on recognising him as LoP was unlawful. It was talked about within the impugned ruling that the chief of a celebration which lacks a minimal power of 18 within the 175-member Legislative Assembly can’t be recognised as LoP and that it was improper to provide LoP standing to Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy purely on discretion. 

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Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy acknowledged that administering of the oath to him after the Chief Minister and the Council of Ministers had been sworn in, was a break from the custom and it gave him the impression that the choice to not grant him the LoP had already been taken with an intent to suppress the voice of the YSRCP, which received in solely 11 Assembly constituencies within the 2024 normal elections. 

He identified that the Speaker handed the stated ruling when his earlier petition within the HC on the identical matter (dated July 23, 2024) was pending. The prayer is for designating him as LoP as per Section 12-B of The A.P. Payment Of Salaries And Pension And Removal Of Disqualifications Act, 1953 or within the various, declaring him as LoP within the A.P. Legislative Assembly.