Supreme Court agrees to examine if 2/3rd MLA strength validates defection as a merger without approval from the original political party.

Congress MPs Manish Tewari and KC Venugopal move adjournment motions in Lok Sabha. Tewari seeks a debate on a new ...

As several AAP, Shiv Sena (UBT) and TMC MPs switched sides days before the Monsoon Session of Parliament began, veteran ...

Chandigarh: Congress MP Manish Tewari stated that the top priority of the upcoming Monsoon Session, which begins on Monday, ...

Four decades after the anti-defection law was enacted, legislators continue to outmaneuver it. What reforms are needed to protect democracy?

India's anti-defection law was introduced in 1985 to end the era of Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram politics, when legislators frequently ...

Twenty rebel TMC MPs have claimed a merger with NCPI, but the move has triggered a legal battle over the Anti-Defection Law, ...

On Friday, seven Rajya Sabha MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and termed their move a “merger” within Para 4 of the Tenth Schedule of Constitution which prohibits such ...

Recent events in the Indian state of Maharashtra reaffirm the existence of glaring loopholes in a law aimed at bolstering political stability in India. The recent fall of the democratically elected ...

A series of defections and mergers has raised fresh questions about the effectiveness of the anti-defection law. The law has been used to aid defections rather than prevent them. Incorporated into the ...