Nagender’s Supreme Court U-turn arrives quickly
Multiple reports say Danam Nagender has challenged the Telangana High Court’s disqualification order. The filing has not yet appeared in the public Supreme Court record searched.
The reported appeal adds another lap to the Khairatabad seat’s legal journey.
Danam Nagender’s reported move to the Supreme Court has turned the Congress’s defection arithmetic into a legal relay race. Multiple reports published on September 19 said the Congress MLA had challenged the Telangana High Court order that disqualified him and declared the Khairatabad Assembly seat vacant. The filing number, registration status and any interim relief were not independently confirmed in the public Supreme Court records searched.
The reported appeal follows a High Court ruling that set aside the Assembly Speaker’s order in the defection case. Nagender was elected from Khairatabad on a BRS ticket in 2023. The High Court record shows that petitions alleged he joined the Congress in March 2024 and was later named the party’s Secunderabad Lok Sabha candidate. The Supreme Court’s July 2025 judgment records the disqualification petitions filed by BRS MLA Padi Kaushik Reddy and BJP MLA Alleti Maheshwar Reddy.
One report said Nagender had welcomed the High Court verdict and indicated he had no plans to approach the Supreme Court. That makes the reported appeal a U-turn, though the original statement was not independently located. The Congress has managed to turn one seat into a continuing court diary entry.