Overview
- BRS leader T. Harish Rao issued an open letter on December 7 accusing Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar of two years of procedural lapses that weakened legislative oversight.
- He pressed for immediate decisions on disqualification petitions against 10 BRS MLAs who joined the ruling Congress, invoking the 1986 defection rules and Article 191(2).
- Rao cited the Supreme Court’s Keisham Meghachandra Singh judgment to underscore that defection cases must be decided within a reasonable time.
- He alleged reduced sitting days, abrupt adjournments, curtailed Question and Zero Hour, and delays in written replies to unstarred questions, urging a minimum of 30 working days a year.
- He said mandatory committees remain unconstituted, the Estimates Committee was not reformed after its chair resigned, and the Deputy Speaker vacancy has stalled the Privileges Committee.