Telangana Congress Legislature party leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka and Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy filed the writ petition stating that 10 MLAs who got elected on Congress party ticket had joined the TRS party and were working on a proposal to merge the Congress legislature party with the TRS legislature party. Disqualification noticeThe petitioners maintained that Telangana Assembly Speaker was not competent to decide upon the merger of a legislature party. They stated that the Congress party national committee had already petitioned the Assembly Speaker seeking disqualification of the 10 MLAs as they had joined the TRS party. They requested the court to instruct the Assembly Speaker to disqualify the 10 legislators who got elected as Congress nominees but joined the TRS. Prior informationThe petitioners requested the court to instruct the Telangana Legislature Secretariat and Assembly Speaker to give notice to them before passing any orders on political status of the 10 legislators elected on Congress ticket.

Source: The Hindu April 29, 2019 19:20 UTC