Speaker to hear responses on disqualification petitions from today

Assembly Speaker G. Prasad Kumar is each acceptable to perceive the arguments connected disqualification petitions filed against 4 BRS legislators who allegedly defected to the ruling Congress connected Wednesday.

The Speaker, chairing the Tribunal constituted nether Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, volition perceive the responses by the advocates of the petitioners and respondents. He volition instrumentality connected grounds the responses of MLAs Tellam Venkat Rao and M. Sanjay Kumar connected Wednesday successful 2 abstracted sessions followed by those from Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Arekapudi Gandhi the adjacent day.

This marks the last signifier of proceeding into the petitions filed against 8 of the 10 BRS legislators by the main absorption party. The Speaker has earlier completed the process pertaining to MLAs T. Prakash Goud, Kale Yadaiah, Gudem Mahipal Reddy and Bandla Krishnamohan Reddy. His verdict connected these MLAs is reserved and the two-day workout starting Wednesday marks the completion of the process pertaining to 4 much legislators.

Two MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari person not responded to the notices served by the Speaker. It volition beryllium absorbing to spot the people of enactment the Tribunal would follow successful the lawsuit of these 2 MLAs. The improvement assumes value successful the airy of Supreme Court Chief Justice B.R. Gavai mounting one-week deadline for the Speaker to implicit the hearings and denote his decision. The Chief Justice was aggravated that the Tribunal did not instrumentality enactment wrong the October 31 deadline acceptable by him.

Assembly sources nevertheless said the Speaker’s bureau is yet to person the announcement from the Supreme Court truthful far. But the Speaker had decided to velocity up the process.