Hyderabad: Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar will conduct a hearing on January 30 regarding the disqualification petition filed against MLA Danam Nagendra. Nagendra, elected in 2023 on the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) ticket, is accused of showing allegiance towards the ruling Congress party.
The Assembly Speaker has issued notices to Danam Nagendra, directing him to be present for the hearing. BRS MLA Kaushik Reddy, who filed the disqualification petition, has also been summoned to attend the proceedings.
On the same day, the Speaker will also hear a disqualification petition against Danam Nagendra filed by BJP floor leader A. Maheshwar Reddy in the Assembly.
Meanwhile, Danam Nagendra has submitted an affidavit requesting the Assembly Speaker to dismiss the disqualification petition. The former minister clarified that he has neither resigned from BRS nor received any suspension notice from the party.
Nagendra further stated that he attended a Congress party meeting in March 2024 in a personal capacity. It is notable that he was elected from the Khairatabad Assembly constituency as a BRS candidate in 2023.
Earlier, the Assembly Speaker had rejected disqualification petitions against seven out of ten BRS MLAs alleged to have joined Congress in 2024. The Speaker ruled that the petitioners failed to prove the legislators had formally joined Congress and that technically, all remained BRS members.
Last year, the Speaker completed hearings on disqualification petitions against eight MLAs and reserved the orders. However, the decision on the disqualification petition against MLA Sanjay Kumar is still pending.
Hearings on the disqualification petitions related to Danam Nagendra and Kadiyam Srihari were delayed as both did not respond to the notices issued to them.
BRS alleges that these MLAs openly joined Congress and sat on the treasury benches in the Assembly. The MLAs have denied these charges, stating that their meetings with Chief Minister Revanth Reddy were solely for the development of their constituencies.
Additionally, BRS informed the Assembly Speaker that Danam Nagendra not only joined Congress but also contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Secunderabad seat on a Congress ticket. The party also accused Kadiyam Srihari of openly campaigning for his daughter Kadiyam Kavya, who was contesting the Warangal Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate.
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