Hyderabad, Dec. 18 -- The Telangana Legislative Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar, acting as the Chairman of the Tribunal under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, dismissed disqualification petitions filed against five Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) after examining their merits.

According to an official press note issued by the Telangana State Legislature Secretariat on Wednesday, the disqualification petitions were filed under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the Members of Telangana Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, 1986. The petitions sought to disqualify certain MLAs for voluntarily resigning from their respective political parties.

The pres...