Hyderabad: 9 out of 10 MLAs who had defected from BRS to Congress final 12 months met Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy at his residence on Sunday night to debate their future plan of action.
Barring Kadiyam Srihari, all defectors attended the assembly, which assumes significance within the wake of the Supreme Courtroom’s July 31 order directing Telangana Meeting Speaker to resolve in three months the disqualification proceedings in opposition to the ten Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLAs who defected to Congress in 2024.
Through the closed-door assembly, which final for over an hour, the MLAs had been understood to have mentioned their future plan of action within the mild of the notices issued to them by Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar following the apex courtroom order.
Although the MLAs claimed that they met the Chief Minister to debate growth of their constituencies, they reportedly mentioned the authorized and political implications of the notices. The legislators preserve that they’re nonetheless with the BRS and cite the Meeting data which nonetheless record them as BRS MLAs.
They declare that their conferences with the Chief Minister had been solely to hunt funds for his or her constituencies. The Supreme Courtroomon July 31 directed Speaker to take a choice in three months on the petitions for disqualification.
A division bench led by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai pronounced orders on the petitions filed by BRS working president Okay. T. Rama Rao (KTR) and another BRS MLAs.
The apex courtroom directed the Speaker to resolve the disqualification petitions as expeditiously as potential and in any case inside a three-months. The primary opposition get together had appealed to Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar to disqualify all 10 BRS MLAs who defected to Congress since March final 12 months.
The BRS leaders had dropped at the Speaker’s discover that as per the Supreme Courtroom judgment in numerous circumstances, the Speaker has to take a choice on disqualification inside three months.
Danam Nagender (Khairatabad constituency), Tellam Venkat Rao (Bhadrachalam), Kadiyam Srihari (Station Ghanpur), Pocharam Srinivas Reddy (Banswada), M. Sanjay Kumar (Jagtial), Arekapudi Gandhi (Serilingampally), T. Prakash Goud (Rajendranagar), B. Krishna Mohan Reddy (Gadwal) G. Mahipal Reddy (Patancheru), Kale Yadaiah (Chevella) defected to Congress get together final 12 months.
