bengaluru after the congress the jds thursday said the party too has approached the assembly speaker seeking disqualification of three of its legislators who are among the 16 mlas who have resigned pushing the hd kumaraswamyled coalition government to the brink of collapsethe three mlas against whom jds has sought disqualification are a h vishwanath hunsur k c narayanagowda k r pet and k gopalaiah mahalakshmi layouthowever speaker ramesh kumar said he cannot take cognisance of the jdss petition to disqualify the legislators as it was not filed in the proper formatthe party has sought their disqualification for indulging in antiparty activities and for giving up membership voluntarily in the interest of justiceyesterday i have filed a petition against three jds mlas seeking action under antidefection law today i have submitted documents to speakers office jds spokesperson ramesh babu said in a statement adding that he was accompanied by advocateshowever the speaker said he cannot take cognisance of the jds application to disqualify mlas as it was not filed in the proper format and those who have submitted it were neither mlas nor party leaders in the housein its petition seeking disqualification of the mlas the jds alleged that the mlas had participated in antiparty activities by identifying themselves with bjp and are now trying to destabilise the coalition governmentthe mlas had addressed the media making serious allegations against the jds and the coalition government he said adding they had acted against the directions of the party and had failed to attend the jds legislature party meeting without any valid reasonsthe mlas had also met the governor and declared that they had withdrawn support to the government without informing the leaders of the party the petition saidthe facts and circumstances clearly demonstrate that the respondents have voluntarily given up the membership of jds in view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances it is clear that the mlas have got themselves disqualified from being the mlasit is therefore clear that the ingredients of section 21 a of the 10th schedule of the constitution of india had been attracted by them for being disqualified from their membership it saidfighting to save the coalition government the congress had on tuesday sought disqualification of its rebel legislators and accused the bjp of using money power to lure its members the party however did not move any petition against seven time mla ramalinga reddy and said he was an exceptionamong the 16 mlas who have resigned 13 are from the congress and three from jdsmeanwhile congress legislature party leader siddaramaiah and kpcc chief dinesh gundu rao thursday appeared before the speaker in connection with the petition they had moved recently seeking disqualification of rebel party mlaswe have moved petition against mlas under antidefection law today hearing was done concerning two members against other members also we have given petition to speakerhe has to decide whether they have to be disqualified or not only then resignation and other issues will come in our petition is against