Hyderabad, Oct. 24 -- Telangana Assembly Speaker G Prasad Kumar will resume the hearing on the disqualification petitions filed by the BRS against rebel MLAs from Friday, October 24.

Before leaving for an official tour, the Speaker had already heard the arguments of four MLAs facing defection charges. He has now decided to complete the hearings on the remaining cases between October 24 and 30, allowing both sides to cross-examine each other's arguments.

The BRS had submitted petitions seeking the disqualification of ten MLAs who defected to the Congress. Acting on these petitions, the Supreme Court directed the Speaker to conclude the hearings within three months, a deadline that ends on October 31.

In the first phase, the Speaker cond...