TDP urges Speaker to take action against defected MLAs

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) urged the Legislative Assembly Speaker here today to take action against TDP MLAs who allegedly defected to the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), based on a petition for their disqualification.
"We brought the issue of the MLAs' disqualification to your notice on a number of occasions, but so far you have not made any decision in this regard," a representation given to Speaker S Madhusudanachary by Telangana-based TDP leaders said.
Five TDP MLAs had "defected" to the TRS, the memorandum said, adding that one of them named T Srinivas Yadav even became a minister.
TDP's floor leader in the assembly E Dayakar Rao and 13 other party leaders were taken into preventive custody yesterday after they held a demonstration in front of the Raj Bhavan here.

"Fourteen persons, including Rao, were taken into preventive custody for staging a protest near the Raj Bhavan," police said yesterday.
Rao and other party leaders met Governor ESL Narasimhan and then held a protest meeting demanding the resignation of Srinivas Yadav.
Yadav said yesterday that he had submitted his resignation as MLA long ago and is ready to face the polls.