In a spill over from the previous week, the Andhra Pradesh assembly remained paralysed on Tuesday with opposition parties insisting on a debate on the liquor syndicate and Telangana issues.

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The Kiran Kumar Reddy government has defeated a no-confidence motion moved against it by the Telugu Desam Party by a margin of 38 votes after a marathon 16-hour debate in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly.

In fresh trouble for the Congress in Andhra Pradesh, 24 of its MLAs and two TDP rebel legislators on Monday resigned protesting inclusion of late chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's name in the CBI Fir in a probe into his son Jaganmohan's assets.