Hyderabad, March 23: The Telangana High Court directed MLA Danam Nagender and the Telangana Legislative Assembly Secretary to respond to a petition filed by BJP’s legislative party leader, Alleti Maheshwar Reddy.
This petition challenges the Assembly Speaker’s order that dismissed a disqualification petition against Nagender. The High Court has issued notices to both parties, instructing them to submit their responses.
The BJP leader seeks to annul the Assembly Speaker’s order, which rejected a disqualification petition filed in July 2024. The petition alleges that Danam Nagender, elected on a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) ticket in the 2023 Assembly elections, abandoned his original party by contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as a Congress candidate.
The petitioner claims that Nagender ran for the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat on a Congress ticket without resigning from the BRS, thus rendering him disqualified under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
Maheshwar Reddy argues that the Assembly Speaker failed to investigate whether the MLA actually left the party, dismissing the petition without proper inquiry.
He also referenced Supreme Court rulings related to similar cases in Karnataka and Bihar. On March 11, the Assembly Speaker, Gaddam Prasad Kumar, dismissed disqualification petitions against Danam Nagender and another MLA, Kadiyam Srihari.
The Speaker stated that the petitioners could not prove that both MLAs had joined the Congress party. In this case, BRS MLA Kaushik Reddy and BJP MLA Maheshwar Reddy filed the disqualification petition against Danam Nagender, while BRS MLA K.P. Vivekanand filed against Kadiyam Srihari.
Additionally, the Assembly Speaker dismissed disqualification petitions against all ten BRS MLAs who allegedly switched their allegiance shortly after the Congress party came to power in the state in 2024.
In December 2025, the Speaker had already dismissed disqualification petitions against five MLAs: Tellam Venkata Rao, Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, T. Prakash Goud, Guddem Mahipal Reddy, and Arekapudi Gandhi.
On January 15, he also dismissed petitions against Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Kale Yadaya. On February 4, the Speaker rejected a disqualification petition against BRS MLA Sanjay Kumar.
In all these cases, the Speaker noted that the petitioners failed to provide solid evidence that these MLAs had defected to the Congress party. Consequently, the ‘Anti-Defection Law’ could not be applied to them.
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