New Delhi:
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy On Wednesday had a message for BRS MLAs that crossed to the ruling congress and stated: “Castle does not have to worry … there will be no by-pch”.
What did he mean?
Ten MLAs from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi were left to the congress after the 2023 assembly elections – in which the latter scored a big victory, which claimed 64 of 119 seats and deepen K Chandrasekhar Rao's party, which has been formed since the state in 2014.
Mr Reddy, it seems, was reassuring these ten, and others who could join, that they should not resign and dispute an interim election to recover their seats.
The comment comes when the Supreme Court hears a case with regard to the transfer of three of those MLAs, including someone who has disputed the Lok Sabha election from last year as a candidate of the congress, and then became an elected legislator of the BRS.
In a hearing on Tuesday, a Bank of Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih noticed that the BRS request to disqualify those three had been treated for the speaker for almost a year.
The court asked the speaker why a decision was not made.
“Like today (ie Tuesday), how much time has passed since the first application? Why did the speaker not set a deadline for determining these petitions,” the court asked.
In particular, the court heard a plea from the BRS to give the speaker a statement within four weeks, which led to a related observation – the court remembered the controversy when the Shiv Sena split and each faction demanded the disqualification of MLAs from the other.
At that time, the Supreme Court De Maharashtra speaker had ordered to rule within a fixed time. On Tuesday, Justices Gavai and Masih noted that it could also intervene, great facie.
The court also took into account the fact that in September last year the Supreme Court of Telangana had dedicated the speaker to hear this issue, but nothing happened.
A notification was only issued in January and, even afterwards, that BRS MLA de Lok disputed Sabha survey as a conference candidate. The speaker issued a new notification last month – after an observation by the Supreme Court – but even the deadline came and went, the BRS said.
The next hearing in this case, the Supreme Court had said, will take place on 3 April.
The defects had caused a destructive attack from senior BRS leader KT Rama Rao, who fired a 'Save the Constitution' Swipe at the congress and her senior leader, Rahul Gandhi.
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It also led to questions about the application of the anti-defect law and the time that the speaker was taken to arrange on petitions that MLAs wanted to disqualify that overflow from one side to the other.
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