Hyderabad, Feb. 5 -- Telangana assembly speaker G Prasad Kumar on Wednesday dismissed the petition filed by the Bharat Rashtra Samithi seeking disqualification of party MLA from Jagtial constituency M Sanjay Kumar for allegedly defecting to the Congress in 2024, people familiar with the matter said.

The speaker, who had heard the arguments on a petition filed by BRS MLA G Jagadish Reddy, ruled that there was no sufficient evidence to prove that Sanjay had defected from the BRS to the ruling Congress.

The order is part of a continuing series of decisions by the Speaker on petitions moved under the anti-defection provisions of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.

With the latest order, eight out of 10 disqualification petitions filed ...