Additional Solicitor General B. Narasimha Sharma on Friday informed Telangana High Court that former Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLA Chennamaneni Ramesh had a valid German passport.
The ASG appearing before the bench of Justice B. Vijayasen Reddy said the former legislator got the passport renewed till 2033. Mr. Sharma, citing the report of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, informed the court that Mr. Ramesh visited Germany thrice in 2023 using the German passport.
The details were furnished to the High Court in compliance of the directions of Justice B. Vijayasen Reddy passed two days during the hearing of a writ petition filed by Mr. Ramesh challenging cancellation of his Indian citizenship by the Central government. The former MLA made Adi Srinivas, a Congress nominee who lost to Mr. Ramesh in 2018 Assembly polls from Vemulawada constituency, as one of the respondents in his writ petition.