Decide in four weeks on BRS MLAs who defected: Telangana HC to Speaker

Hyderabad: Telangana High Court has asked the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to decide in four weeks on the MLAs who have crossed parties.

The High Court was hearing a writ petition seeking a direction to the Speaker, the TG Legislative Assembly to disqualify BRS MLAs, who defected to Congress.

Justice B. Vijaysen Reddy the Secretary, of the TG legislative Assembly to place before the Speaker all three 3 disqualification petitions for fixing the schedule, filing of pleadings, documents, personal hearings, etc.

The secretary will also file a status report on the schedule of the Speaker before the Registrar Judicial, High Court within 4 weeks.

“If the Speaker does not fix a schedule for hearing the disqualification petitions, then the court will re-open the cases and appropriate orders will be passed,” the court said.

BRS MLAs who joined the Congress:

Danam Nagender -Khairatabad

Kale Yadaiah-Chevella

Kadiyam Srihari-Ghanpur Station

Pocharam Srinivas Reddy-Banswada

Tellam Venkat Rao- Bhadrachalam

Arekapudi Gandhi- Serilingampally

Sanjay Kumar-Jagtial

Gudem Mahipal Reddy-Patancheru

T Prakash Goud- Rajendranagar

Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy - Gadwal

BRS Working President K T Rama Rao (KTR) said the High Court’s directive to the Assembly Secretary to place disqualification petitions before the Speaker is a victory for democracy.

"Now, the honorable Speaker Garu has 4 weeks to restore transparency and uphold the sanctity of the House. We fought relentlessly for this moment, no more betrayal of the people's mandate! Jai Telangana!," Rao, son of BRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao, said on 'X'.