Bhubaneswar, April 11 -- Odisha Assembly Speaker on Thursday disqualified two MLAs- Premananda Nayak and Arabinda Dhali, who recently joined BJP after quitting BJD, under anti-defection law.

While Dhali was the MLA from Jayadev constituency, Nayak was the legislator of Telkoi.

A notification on the disqualification of both the MLAS has been issued by the Odisha Legislative Assembly.

As per official sources, the disqualification of the two leaders will be effective immediately. They have been disqualified in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Speaker under paragraph 6(1) of the tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India.

The Speaker decided to disqualify Dhali and Nayak after MLA Prasanta Kumar Muduli filed a petition on March ...