Don’t issue notification for MLC elections: Telangana high court

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court on Thursday directed the Election Commission (EC) to not issue poll notification to those MLC seats that have become vacant on account of disqualification orders passed by Telangana legislative council chairman.
The bench of Acting Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice Shameem Akther gave this interim direction while hearing pleas by disqualified MLCs R Bhupathi Reddy and Yadav Reddy. Following a restraint order passed by the bench in respect of Yadav Reddy asking the EC not to notify polls till May 15, the EC counsel Madhuri came forward and said they will not issue any poll notification in respect of Bhupathi Reddy too.
One more disqualified MLC Ramulu Naik’s plea is pending before the bench which said it would adjudicate all three issues by May 15. Additional advocate General J Ramachandra Rao informed the court that the poll notification issued for the MLC polls did not include these three seats.
Bhupathi Reddy, in his petition, challenged the decision of the legislative council chairman to disqualify him from his MLC post. “Though I was nominated by TRS as its MLC candidate for local bodies constituency from Nizamabad, I was elected unanimously,” he said.