TS Assembly Speaker issues show cause notice to defected MLAs

Hyderabad: Five MLAs defected to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) from TDP recently have been served with show-cause notices by the Legislative Assembly Speaker M. Madhusudanachary on Thursday. He sought their explanation why an action should not be taken against them for defecting from the party on which they got elected.

The Speaker issued the notices to MLAs Errabelli Dayakar Rao, Rajendar Reddy, Prakash Goud, Vivekananda Reddy and Sayanna seeking explanation over their defections within one week following the TDP’s petition seeking their disqualification.

The MLAs had defected to TRS party following five more MLAs earlier. Out of 15 victorious MLAs of TDP, so far, 10 MLAs had defected to ruling TRS. Errabelli Dayakar Rao had petitioned to Speaker seeking the merger of 10 defected MLAs into TRS as they form the majority of TDP Legislative Party. The speaker issuing notices to the defected MLAs while their petition for merger is pending has now become a hot topic in the political circles.