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The high court had set aside an order of the Assembly Speaker in March this year dismissing petitions seeking his disqualification.

The Registry was directed to communicate the judgment to the Assembly Speaker and the Election Commission.

In a statement, KTR alleged that the Congress itself directly engineered the defections, terming the Speaker’s decision an “assault on democracy and the Constitution.”

The development is significant as Danam Nagender, after winning the Assembly election on a BRS ticket, had contested the Lok Sabha elections as a candidate of the Congress without resigning his seat.

He also claimed that he attended Assembly proceedings in his capacity as a BRS MLA. The Speaker will hear arguments from both sides on Friday.

Nagender’s position is strikingly different from that taken by the other MLAs who maintain that they continue to belong to the BRS.