{"id":109709,"date":"2025-03-26T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=109709"},"modified":"2025-03-26T13:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:42:42","slug":"defectors-neednt-worry-revanth-reddy-to-mlas-eyeing-congress-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=109709","title":{"rendered":"“Defectors Needn’t Worry…”: Revanth Reddy To MLAs Eyeing Congress Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telangana<\/a> Chief Minister Revanth Reddy<\/a> on Wednesday had a message for BRS MLAs crossing over to the ruling Congress, declaring, “Defectors need not worry… there will be no by-polls”.<\/p>\n

What did he mean?<\/p>\n

Ten MLAs from the Bharat Rashtra Samithi<\/a> had defected to the Congress<\/a> after the 2023 Assembly election – in which the latter scored a big win, claiming 64 of 119 seats and ousting K Chandrasekhar Rao’s party, which had been in power since the state was formed in 2014.<\/p>\n

Mr Reddy, it appears, was reassuring these ten, and any others who might join, that they will not have to resign and contest a mid-term election to win back their seats.<\/p>\n

The comment comes as the Supreme Court is hearing a case relating to the defection of three of those MLAs, including one who contested last year’s Lok Sabha election as a Congress candidate, lost, and then went back to being an elected lawmaker from the BRS.<\/p>\n

In a hearing on Tuesday a bench of Justice BR Gavai and Justice AG Masih noted the BRS’ application to disqualify those three had been pending for nearly a year before the Speaker.<\/p>\n

The court asked the Speaker why a decision had not been made either way.<\/p>\n

“As on today (i.e., Tuesday), how much time has passed since the first application? Why has the Speaker’s office not set a deadline for deciding these petitions,” the court asked.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the court was hearing a plea by the BRS to direct the Speaker to make a ruling within four weeks, which led to a related observation – the court recalled the controversy when the Shiv Sena split, and each faction demanded the disqualification of MLAs from the other.<\/p>\n

Then the Supreme Court had directed the Maharashtra Speaker to rule within a set time. On Tuesday Justices Gavai and Masih observed that, prima facie, it could intervene in this case too.<\/p>\n

The court also took into consideration the fact the Telangana High Court had, in September last year, directed the Speaker to hear this matter within four weeks, but nothing happened.<\/p>\n

A notice was issued only in January and, even after that, that BRS MLA contested the Lok Sabha poll as a Congress candidate. The Speaker issued a fresh notice last month – after an observation by the Supreme Court – but even that deadline came and went, the BRS said.<\/p>\n

The next hearing in this case, the Supreme Court had said, will take place on April 3.<\/p>\n

The defections had provoked a scathing attack from senior BRS leader KT Rama Rao, who fired a ‘save the Constitution’ swipe at the Congress and its senior leader, Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n

READ |\u00a0<\/strong>KTR’s “Save Constitution” Swipe At Congress As BRS Faces Defections<\/a><\/p>\n

It also led to questions about application of the anti-defection law and time taken by the Speaker to rule on petitions seeking to disqualify MLAs who defect from one side to another.<\/p>\n

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