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Speaker G. Prasad Kumar is learnt to person served notices afresh connected the 2 BRS MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari facing charges of defection to the ruling Congress party.
The 2 MLAs person not responded to the earlier petitions served by the Speaker who is chairing the Tribunal constituted nether Tenth Schedule of the Constitution dealing with the Anti Defection Law. The Speaker asked the 2 MLAs to respond to the notices astatine the earliest successful presumption of the deadline acceptable by the Supreme Court to finalise the people of enactment into the disqualification petitions filed against 10 BRS legislators.
The 2 MLAs reportedly sought clip for submission of their respective responses to the notices, but person not submitted them truthful far. Though the nonstop clip framework acceptable for the 2 MLAs to taxable their affidavits is not known, sources said it could beryllium little than a week arsenic the Speaker had to commence hearings and implicit the process wrong the deadline acceptable by the apex court.
Meanwhile, the Tribunal headed by the Speaker connected Thursday completed hearings pertaining to 2 BRS legislators - Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Arekapudi Gandhi. Advocates representing the 2 MLAs and those of the petitioners G. Jagdish Reddy and Kalvakuntla Sanjay made deposition relating to their respective stances earlier the Tribunal bringing the hearings to a close.
Two much MLAs Tellam Venkat Rao and M. Sanjay Kumar made their deposition earlier the Tribunal connected Wednesday, bringing to an extremity the proceeding pertaining to 8 MLAs.
The Speaker reserved his verdict connected the hearings, and is expected to pass them earlier the deadline acceptable by the Supreme Court.
