BRS intensifies legal efforts for disqualification of defectors

Hyderabad: The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has intensified its legal efforts to get 10 MLAs disqualified for defecting to the Congress.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao on Monday claimed that by-elections in Telangana will be inevitable as the MLAs who defected to the ruling Congress will be disqualified.

Rama Rao along with T. Harish Rao and other senior leaders met legal experts in Delhi as part of the party’s efforts to get turncoat MLAs disqualified. KTR, as Rama Rao is popularly known, said the BRS was fighting a legal battle for disqualification of the MLAs under the anti-defection law. A delegation of the party’s senior leaders led by KTR consulted Constitutional experts. He said the BRS would soon file a petition in the Supreme Court for disqualification of the MLAs who switched loyalties. KTR claimed that the Constitutional experts told them that the court’s verdict within a month would give clarity on the disqualification of defectors. He vowed would teach a lesson to the defectors in the people’s court.