Bengaluru: Karnataka Assembly speaker K R Ramesh Kumar on Thursday disqualified two Congress rebel MLAs and Independent legislator MLA R Shankar, who had resigned from the state cabinet in July, till the end of the term of current House in 2023.

Giving his ruling, the Speaker said he would take a decision on the remaining 14 cases in a "couple of days." Kumar said members cannot contest or get elected to the assembly till the end of the term of the House. He said he was convinced that the resignations by the three members were not voluntary and genuine and he had therefore rejected them and proceeded to disqualify them.