The High Court of Telangana has issued notice to the Legislature secretary over the suspension of the BJP MLAs.
The BJP MLAs filed a writ petition in the high court challenging their suspension and seeking a direction to permit them to attend the session till its completion.
The MLAs Rajasingh, Etela, Raghunandan contended that they were suspended when they were trying to register their protest against the blatant violation of the Constitutional mandate of having the Governor’s address.
The MLAs said they had entered the Assembly Hall wearing black shawls as a mark of protest and were trying to raise the issue of the scrapping of the Governor’s address.
The legislators said the Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy paid no heed to the requests and asked the Finance Minister to present the Budget.
After some time, MLA Raja Singh started walking towards the Speaker’s direction to catch his attention and kept asking for an opportunity to speak, the petition said.
