'Not a legal merger': Jayadev Galla on TDP merging with BJP

New Delhi, Jun 21 (ANI): A day after four Rajya Sabha lawmakers of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) switched over to the BJP, Jayadev Galla, one of the TDP MPs who met Naidu on Friday, said that the merger of a political party can take place only at an organisational level, as per the tenth Schedule in the Constitution.He said that the merger of a political party can take place only at an organisational level, as per law.He further added, "Having gone through the law what we now understand is, merger of a political party has to take place at only organisational level. It cannot take place at legislature party level. Since TDP and BJP have not merged at the organisational level this is not a legal merger". A group of MPs of the Andhra party submitted a written complaint to Rajya Sabha chairman M Venkaiah Naidu.