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The Telangana Legislative Assembly. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. Giri
The Legislature Secretariat has summoned 4 extra MLAs of the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) who’re dealing with costs of defection to the ruling Congress get together. The Tribunal, headed by Speaker G. Prasad Kumar and constituted underneath the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution coping with the Anti-Defection Law, will conduct hearings on the costs made by the BRS management towards MLAs Tellam Venkat Rao, Arekapudi Gandhi, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, and M. Sanjay Kumar from Thursday. The hearings can be held over two days, divided into two classes every. The Speaker’s workplace has additionally issued notices to the petitioners, BRS MLAs G. Jagdish Reddy, Kalvakuntla Sanjay, and K.P. Vivekananda, to seem for the hearings with their advocates. The Speaker will cross-examine the 4 MLAs once more on November 12 and 13, in accordance with the notification. The course of follows earlier hearings on petitions pertaining to BRS MLAs T. Prakash Goud, Kale Yadaiah, Gudem Mahipal Reddy, and Bandla Krishnamohan Reddy final month. The legislators, defending their stance, have been guided by authorized consultants in answering the queries posed by the Tribunal. While advocates for the petitioners offered a robust case towards the legislators, the counsels representing the MLAs reportedly argued that their purchasers had not defected to the Congress and had met Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and different Ministers just for constituency-related issues. The Tribunal has accomplished hearings and cross-examination of the 4 MLAs and reserved its verdict. Two different BRS MLAs, Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihar, haven’t but responded to the disqualification notices served on them. It stays to be seen what plan of action the Speaker will undertake of their case.
Published – November 05, 2025 04:36 pm IST
