Hyderabad, March 11 -- Telangana Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad on Wednesday, March 11, dismissed the disqualification petitions against Khairatbad MLA Danam Nagender and Station Ghanpur MLA Kadiyam Srihari.

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) had filed a petition against 10 MLAs, including these two, stating that they had won the 2023 Assembly elections on BRS tickets and later switched to the Congress. However, during an inquiry conducted by the speaker, both MLAs stated that they remain members of the BRS and denied switching over to the ruling party.

Srihari and Nagender denied receiving a whip from the BRS. The Khairataba MLA said he was working alongside Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for the betterment of Hyderabad. After hearing th...