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The Supreme Court connected Monday (November 17, 2025) warned the Telangana Assembly Speaker is successful “gross contempt” for delaying a determination connected petitions filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders seeking the disqualification of 10 of their MLAs who shifted allegiance to the ruling Congress party successful the State.
In July, a Bench headed by Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai had allowed the Speaker 3 months to implicit the disqualification proceedings nether the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
“Either this (disqualification petitions) person to beryllium decided by adjacent week oregon look contempt. This is gross contempt. We person already said helium does not bask law immunity portion acting arsenic a tribunal nether the Tenth Schedule. It is up to him to determine wherever helium wants to walk connected the New Year’s day,” Chief Justice Gavai observed.
In a erstwhile hearing, the tribunal clarified its power, and duty, to guarantee that Speakers, acting arsenic a quasi-judicial tribunal nether the anti-defection instrumentality of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, did not beryllium implicit disqualification petitions till they “die a earthy death” towards the extremity of the tenure of the House.
The tribunal had expressed its resoluteness to not stay a soundless spectator and ticker from the assemblage arsenic a Speaker waited six months earlier the extremity of the tenure of a Legislative Assembly lone to accidental “now determination is nary clip left”.
Justice Gavai had firmly said the tribunal would not let the Tenth Schedule to beryllium reduced to a mockery. It had observed that governmental defections, unless addressed and curbed, had the powerfulness to disrupt democracy.
The apex tribunal is proceeding petitions filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi leaders, including KT Rama Rao and Padi Kaushik Reddy, seeking timely enactment by the Telangana Assembly Speaker connected disqualification proceedings pending against 10 MLAs.
