Hyderabad: Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar has reportedly sought a 2-month extension from the Supreme Court to hear the disqualification petitions against 10 Bharat Rashtra Samithi ( BRS ) MLAs who are accused of defecting to the Congress after the 2023 Assembly elections.

After the BRS approached the top court seeking the disqualification of the rebel MLAs, the SC, on July 31, had directed the Speaker to decide on the matter within three months.

The Speaker had issued notices to the 10 accused MLAs, including Danam Nagender (Khairatabad constituency), Tellam Venkat Rao (Bhadrachalam), Kadiyam Srihari (Station Ghanpur), Pocharam Srinivas Reddy (Banswada), M Sanjay Kumar (Jagtial), Arekapudi Gandhi (Serilingampally), T Prakash Goud (Rajendranagar), B Krishna Mohan Redd

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