Hyderabad, March 23 (IANS) Telangana High Court on Monday directed MLA Danam Nagender and Telangana Legislature Secretary to file counters to the petition of BJP Legislative Party leader Alleti Maheshwar Reddy, challenging the order passed by the Assembly Speaker dismissing his disqualification petition against Nagender.The High Court took up the petition for hearing and ordered notices to be served to the MLA and the Legislature Secretary.The BJP leader has sought a direction to quash and set a…
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Hyderabad, March 11 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K. T. Rama Rao on Wednesday termed Telangana Assembly Speaker’s clean chit to MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari in the anti-defection case as an open attack on democracy. He took to ‘X’ to react strongly to Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar dismissing petitions for disqualification of Nagender and Srihari, who were elected to Assembly on BRS tickets in 2023 but later defected to the ruling Congress party. Rama Rao criticis…
Hyderabad, March 5 (IANS) Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Thursday took up a hearing on the petitions for the disqualification of two BRS MLAs who had allegedly switched loyalties to the ruling Congress in 2024.The Speaker completed the hearing on the petition for the disqualification of Kadiyam Srihari and postponed the hearing on the petition for the disqualification of Danam Nagender to Saturday.He directed both the petitioners and the MLA to appear for the hearing on Saturd…
Hyderabad, Feb 4 (IANS) Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar on Wednesday dismissed the petition for the disqualification of BRS MLA Sanjay Kumar, who had allegedly switched loyalties to the ruling Congress party.The Speaker, who had reserved the orders on the petition filed by Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA Jagadish Reddy last year, pronounced the same on Wednesday.The Speaker ruled that as the petitioner failed to provide evidence that Sanjay Kumar, who represents Jagtial constitue…