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Hyderabad: Congress senior leader and former minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir has advised Telangana Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas Reddy to learn from the thoughts expressed by newly elected Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly Tammineni Sitaram on defections. Shabbir Ali, in a media statement on Thursday, welcomed the thoughts of Tammineni Sitaram wherein he resolved to implement the Anti-Defection Law in letter and spirit. He said that Speaker Sitaram has delivered an impressive and amazing speech after his election on the morals, ethics and principals to be followed in the legislature. He said that AP Assembly Speaker Tammineni Sitaram has clearly indicated that any legislator who wishes to change his party would be automatically disqualified. The Congress leader reiterated that the merger of 12 defected MLAs of Congress party into TRS was illegal, unconstitutional and also unethical..