New Delhi, July 26 -- The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a fresh delimitation exercise in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, ruling that there is a constitutional bar against taking up such a demand before the first census conducted after 2026, and cautioning that entertaining such public interest petitions could "open the floodgates" for similar pleas from other states. A bench of justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh delivered the judgment, firmly rejecting allegations of discrimination vis-a-vis the separate delimitation conducted for the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, which was reconstituted in 2019 following the abrogation of Article 370. "On a plain and harmonious reading... Section 26 of the AP Reorganisation A...