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 ...

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?

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After losing her chief ministerial crown, Mamata Banerjee is now in danger of being deprived of the reins of the Trinamool Congress, a party she founded. On Wednesday, at least 58 of the TMC’S 80 ...