Overview

• Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar issued notices to 10 BRS MLAs accused of joining the Congress, with eight submitting replies and two seeking more time.
• The Speaker has given the BRS complainant MLAs three days to counter the accused lawmakers’ explanations, with a decision due by the end of October under a Supreme Court schedule.
• In their letters, the accused MLAs asserted they remain with the BRS, saying photos with Congress leaders were from constituency work meetings or, in one claim, morphed.
• TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud said the 10 had joined the Congress for a specific purpose to protect the government from alleged threats to topple it.
• BRS leader K.T. Rama Rao accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of facilitating defections and demanded answers over what he called 'MLA chori.'