Meeting Speaker G. Prasad Kumar is all set to listen to the arguments on disqualification petitions filed in opposition to 4 BRS legislators who allegedly defected to the ruling Congress on Wednesday.
The Speaker, chairing the Tribunal constituted below Tenth Schedule of the Structure, will hear the responses by the advocates of the petitioners and respondents. He’ll tackle report the responses of MLAs Tellam Venkat Rao and M. Sanjay Kumar on Wednesday in two separate periods adopted by these from Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Arekapudi Gandhi the following day.
This marks the ultimate stage of listening to into the petitions filed in opposition to eight of the ten BRS legislators by the principle opposition social gathering. The Speaker has earlier accomplished the method pertaining to MLAs T. Prakash Goud, Kale Yadaiah, Gudem Mahipal Reddy and Bandla Krishnamohan Reddy. His verdict on these MLAs is reserved and the two-day train beginning Wednesday marks the completion of the method pertaining to 4 extra legislators.
Two MLAs Danam Nagender and Kadiyam Srihari haven’t responded to the notices served by the Speaker. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see the plan of action the Tribunal would undertake within the case of those two MLAs. The event assumes significance within the gentle of Supreme Court docket Chief Justice BR Gavai setting a one-week deadline for the Speaker to finish the hearings and announce his determination. The Chief Justice was indignant that the Tribunal didn’t take motion inside the October 31 deadline set by him.
Meeting sources nonetheless mentioned the Speaker’s workplace is but to obtain the discover from the Supreme Court docket thus far. However the Speaker had determined to hurry up the method.
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