HYDERABAD: The Telugu Desam Legislature Party (TDLP) on Wednesday wanted the Election Commission to disqualify Ministers and MLAs who resorted to open-voting in the Council poll from Local Authorities Constituencies (LACs) in violation of the norms.

Addressing a press conference- Eraballi Dayakar Rao, D. Umamaheswara Rao, N. Amarnadha Reddy and K. Jogulu- all MLAs, said they would petition the Commission again demanding re-polling after cancellation of the elections from those LACs where norms were violated.

They said action should be initiated against Chief MinisterY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy and APCC president K. Keshav Rao for defending the guilty and for leading others to believe that the violation had official sanction.

This was after the Election Commission took a serious exception to Ministers N. Rajyalakshmi and Botcha Satyanarayana and Congress MLAs G. Muddukrishnama Naidu and T. Venkat Rao and others who showed their ballots.

`Ready to quit'

Mr. Dayakar Rao said the party legislators were prepared to quit, if the Government ordered an inquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court and proved the charge that they had acquired lands illegally.

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