<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> http://kla.kar.nic.in/ </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Footnotes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> The Council was established in 1907 for the Princely State of Mysore . The Princely state was merged with the Union of India and became Mysore State in 1950; Mysore State was re-organized to its current territorial state in 1956 and renamed as Karnataka on 1 November 1973 . </Td> </Tr> <P> The Karnataka Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of Karnataka state in south western India . Karnataka is one of the seven states in India, where the state legislature is bicameral, comprising two houses: the Vidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly), and the Vidhan Parishad (Legislative Council). The Karnataka Legislative Council is a permanent body comprising 75 members . </P>

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