The Supreme Court heard the case with disqualification of 10 rebel MLAs of Telangana BRS on Thursday (April 3, 2025). The court has reprimanded Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on his statement. The court told him that it has not happened even for a year and you are making such statements again, have we made a mistake by not taking any action against you. The court was angry that Revanth Reddy commented on the matter in the assembly, while he was also interrupted that the matter is still pending in the Supreme Court. Despite this, he did not become silent.
Last year, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K.K. Revanth Reddy commented on the Supreme Court verdict to bail Kavita. He had said that there has been a deal between BRS and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). His remarks were objected by the Supreme Court, after which Revanth Reddy apologized and the court accepted. Now he has said in a strict tone in the presence of the speaker in the assembly that there will be no by -election in any case.
The court was hearing the case in which the issue of delay was raised by the Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker in deciding the petitions requesting some MLAs of BRS who were involved in the Congress.
According to the report of Live Law, Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gawai and Justice Augustine George Christ were hearing bench. On behalf of the petitioners, Aryama Sundaram told the court that during the assembly proceedings, a BRS MLA told CM Reddy that the proceedings of the Supreme Court should not be discussed in the House as the matter is under consideration there, but the Chief Minister did not listen to them and said, ‘What we want is the freedom to speak.’
Aryama Sundaram reiterated CM’s statement in the court and said, ‘Speaker, I (CM) are telling the assembly members on your behalf that they do not have to worry about any by -election. There will be no by -election, not even if the opposition. Whether the opposition MLAs come here or stay there, but there will be no by -election. Advocate said that the BRS MLA interrupted him here, the CM said, this house is immune to some laws and if I am speaking something in the House then there is protection here.
Advocate Aryama Sundaram said that the speaker did not interrupt the Chief Minister even once, how he can speak on his behalf. The court expressed discomfort from the Chief Minister’s statement, saying, ‘Has the court made a mistake by accepting his apology and taking no action? Not even a year has happened and they cannot expect that he will be a little restrained?
In a petition, the order of the Telangana High Court has been challenged in the matter related to petitions requested to disqualify three BRS MLAs, while the second petition belongs to the remaining seven MLAs. In November last year, the High Court had said that the Speaker should decide against the three MLAs within appropriate time on disqualification petitions.
The bench’s decision came on an appeal against the order of the single judge on September 9, 2024. The single judge had directed the Secretary of the Telangana Legislative Assembly to put a petition requested for disqualification to decide the hearing program within four weeks before the Speaker.
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