Hyderabad, March 29 (IANS) Telangana Assembly Speaker on Sunday referred to the Ethics Committee the incident of alleged unruly behaviour of opposition BRS MLA P. Kaushik Reddy in the House. After legislative affairs minister D. Sridhar Babu moved a resolution to refer the alleged unethical behaviour of Kaushik Reddy against senior member Kadiyam Srihari to the Ethics Committee, Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar announced passing of the resolution by a voice vote.Earlier, members of the ruling Congres…
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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…
New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday disposed of contempt petitions alleging non-compliance with its earlier order directing the Telangana Assembly Speaker to decide disqualification pleas against MLAs who defected from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to the ruling Congress. Following the submission that a decision has now been taken in all the disqualification petitions by the Speaker, a bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and A.G. Masih directed the Speaker’s office to provid…
Hyderabad, March 11 (IANS) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has alleged that Telangana Assembly Speaker took the decision on the disqualification petitions against defecting MLAs under pressure from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao (KTR) accused the Congress leadership of orchestrating the entire episode.Addressing a press conference, he called Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar’s decision, dismissing disqualification petitions against the remaining two MLAs, as highly und…
Hyderabad, March 11 (IANS) The BJP in Telangana has termed as mockery of the Constitution the judgment of Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, dismissing petitions for disqualification of BRS MLAs who had defected to ruling Congress party.State BJP president, N. Ramchander Rao, called Wednesday’s verdict by the Speaker on the petitions for disqualification of Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari as “absolute mockery of the Constitution”.In his post on ‘X’, Ramchander Rao took pots…
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…
New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Friday gave a final opportunity to the Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly to decide the remaining disqualification petitions against MLAs who defected from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to the ruling Congress party. A Bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and A.G. Masih directed the Speaker to “positively” decide on the pending petitions within three weeks. “We expect the Speaker to positively take a decision, failing which we shall proce…
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…
Hyderabad, Feb 3 (IANS) Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar will hear the petition for the disqualification of MLA Kadiyam Srihari on Wednesday (February 4).The Speaker has asked Kadiyam Srihari and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA and petitioner K.P. Vivekanand to appear for the hearing.The Speaker, who is the chairman of the tribunal under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution of India, will record the evidence on behalf of the petitioner.Srihari, a former deputy chief minister, is …