evidence: - The only Part D state was the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were administered by a lieutenant governor appointed by the union government. [...] In August 2019, the Parliament of India passed the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which contains provisions to reorganise the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories; Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, effective from 31 October 2019.[23] Later that year in November, the Government of India introduced legislation to merge the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli into a single union territory to be known as Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, effective from 26 January 2020.[24][25][26] [...] - ^ Andhra State Act, 1953 (PDF). Parliament of India. 1953. Retrieved 15 October 2023.