Telangana HC serves notice to Danam, Speaker on disqualification petition

Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice GM Mohiuddin of the Telangana High Court on Monday issued notices in a writ petition challenging the order of the Speaker refusing to disqualify Khairatabad MLA Danam Nagender under the anti-defection law. 

The writ petition has been filed by BJP Legislature Party floor leader A Maheshwar Reddy, seeking to quash the order dated March 11, 2026, passed by the Speaker of the Telangana Legislative Assembly in Disqualification Petition No. 4 of



2024.

The petitioner has sought a writ of certiorari to set aside the Speaker’s order and to declare that Danam Nagender stands disqualified under Paragraph 2(1)(a) of the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution. 

It is the case of the petitioner that Danam Nagender, who was elected in the 2023 Assembly elections on a Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) ticket, subsequently contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Secunderabad as a Congress candidate by obtaining a B-Form from the Congress party.