Hyderabad: The Telangana Congress Legislature Party on Thursday moved the Hyderabad High Court seeking a directive to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to dispose of the disqualification petitions pending before him against the four MLAs from the Congress who joined the TRS.

S.A. Sampath Kumar, Whip of the Telangana Congress Legislature Party filed the petition stating that D.S. Redya Naik, Kale Yadaiah, G. Vittal Reddy and Koram Kanakaiah, MLAs from the Congress joined the TRS without resigning from the party. Mr Kumar also said that the MLAs were elected to the Legislative Assembly on Congress ticket despite which they had indulged in anti-party activities.

He contended that MLAs had committed an act that attracted disqualification and the TCLP had previously filed a separate petition complaining against anti-party activities that the MLAs indulged in and the acts that merited disqualification in August and November 2014 before the Tribunal constituted under the X Schedule of the Constitution presided by the Assembly Speaker.

He said the petitions have been taken on file and issued notices to the MLAs, but the petitions were not disposed of till date.