The Supreme Court today heard a petition on the future of YSR Congress Party MLA R K Roja, who was elected from the Nagari constituency in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.
The apex court asked her to approach the High Court and directed the latter to give an opportunity to Roja to file her counter.
The Supreme Court also directed the High Court to complete the hearing on her petition by the end of this year.
Roja had approached the Supreme Court asking it to quash the petition filed against her election from the Nagari constituency. The petition was filed in the Hyderabad High Court by one Rayudu, who argued that Roja's election from Nagari was invalid, and served a notice in connection with the petition. The YSRCP leader had urged the High Court to quash the petition, but the Court decided to take up both the petitions (this one and the one by her challenging her suspension from the AP Assembly) together for hearing.
Later, Roja chose to move the Supreme Court on the grounds that the simultaneous hearing of two petitions was against the law, and appealed to the SC seeking that the two petitions be taken up separately for hearing.
The MLA, who has got no respite from the one-year suspension from the AP Assembly handed out to her despite appealing to the Supreme Court, has had her legal woes increased with a fresh petition.
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