HC wants orders; Congress wants time
Telangana High Court has told the Speaker and Congress-backed MLAs to file their replies and produce the original dismissal orders in the BRS disqualification batch. The BJP-led Centre is nowhere in this fight; the Congress in Hyderabad is very much in it — and stalling helps them.
The High Court has given the respondents three weeks to file replies and produce the original dismissal orders.
A division bench of the Telangana High Court — Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice G. M. Mohiuddin — is hearing BRS petitions against Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar’s decisions to throw out disqualification pleas against 10 MLAs elected on BRS tickets and now alleged to have crossed to the ruling Congress. According to the court’s June 25–26 proceedings as reported, the respondents got a final three weeks to file counter‑affidavits and were told to bring the original dismissal orders to the next hearing. In plain terms: the court wants the paperwork, not the press lines.
The case turns on the Tenth Schedule, where the BRS petitioners say the Speaker’s dismissals were arbitrary and contrary to the rules. Earlier filings tracked by the Supreme Court show disqualification petitions were lodged in March–April 2024; when the Speaker delayed, writs followed. The Speaker ultimately ‘acquitted’ all 10 between December 2025 and March 2026 — a run of clean chits that the Congress government benefits from, and that the court is now testing against the actual orders.
Names on the notice board include seven MLAs — T. Prakash Goud, Tellam Venkat Rao, Arikepudi Gandhi, Bandla Krishna Mohan Reddy, Kale Yadaiah, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy and Danam Nagender — along with the Speaker. The bench has not ruled on the merits yet; it is still at replies and record‑production. The Congress government in Telangana can keep insisting everything is perfectly legal; the judges have asked for the documents. Three weeks was the last extension.