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Telangana Assembly Speaker, Gaddam Prasad Kumar, dismissed the disqualification petitions filed by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) against 2 of its legislators, Chevella MLA Kale Yadaiah and Banswada MLA Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, who were accused of having switched allegiance to the ruling Congress.
“I person issued orders dismissing the disqualification petitions filed against Kale Yadaiah and Pocharam Srinivas Reddy by the BRS,” the Speaker said, according to authoritative sources.
Following the latest orders, disqualification petitions against 3 different MLAs, Kadiyam Srihari, Danam Nagendar and M. Sanjay Kumar stay pending earlier the Speaker.
The Speaker has truthful acold rejected disqualification pleas against 7 of the 10 BRS legislators — facing allegations of defections nether the anti-defection law. In December, the Speaker dismissed akin petitions against 5 BRS MLAs, Tellam Venkat Rao, Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, T. Prakash Goud, Gudem Mahipal Reddy and Arekapudi Gandhi.
Earlier, the Speaker had issued notices to 10 MLAs named successful the petitions filed by the BRS Legislators, alleging that they had defected to the Congress aft the 2023 Assembly elections.
The BRS approached the Supreme Court alleging that the Speaker was not initiating immoderate enactment against the defected MLAs contempt repeated petitions. The Supreme Court, connected November 17, 2025, issued a contempt announcement to the Telangana Speaker for not complying with its directive to determine expeditiously connected the disqualification pleas against the BRS MLAs who allegedly shifted to the Congress.
KTR reacts to the Speaker’s decision
The BRS moving president, K T Rama Rao, accused the Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of backing defectors “without shame” and of making a mockery of the Constitution astatine each step. He alleged that governmental unit exerted by the Congress has ‘corrupted’ the Speaker’s institution, which, it said, was duty-bound to disqualify MLAs Mr. Yadaiah and Mr. Srinivas Reddy who shifted allegiance.
The erstwhile Minister recalled that akin unit tactics were employed successful the past to forestall enactment against 5 different MLAs who shifted parties, terming specified forces ‘undemocratic’ and accusing them of burying law values. He maintained that contempt “overwhelming and disposable evidence” of MLAs changing parties, claims of deficiency of impervious amounted to an insult to the sanctity of the Legislative Assembly itself.
Linking the contented to caller governmental developments, the BRS said the Congress’s ‘poor performance’ successful the precocious held Panchayat elections had near it fearful of facing by-elections successful the constituencies of the defecting MLAs. According to the BRS, this fearfulness was evident successful what it described arsenic repeated attempts to support the ‘turncoat’ legislators.
KTR said the MLAs had already mislaid nationalist legitimacy and they had agelong since go “former representatives” successful the tribunal of the people.
Reiterating its resolve, helium said the enactment would proceed its agitation until those who “betrayed the people’s mandate” and the Chief Minister who publically endorsed them are held accountable. The BRS enactment vowed to intensify its struggle, some politically and legally, to support antiauthoritarian and law values.
The Congress, however, has maintained that the Speaker is acting strictly successful accordance with law provisions and precedents, and has dismissed the BRS allegations arsenic politically motivated.
