TMC Rebel MPs & Anti-Defection Law India: Mamata Banerjee has not only lost power in the state, but has also lost control ...

The Supreme Court in a 2023 judgment had said that “a split is no longer a defence” under the anti-defection law, and that ...

Bypassing that intent through defections — whatever name they go by — is an affront to representative democracy and the spirit of the Constitution.

According to Paragraph 4 of the Tenth Schedule, disqualification on grounds of defection is made to not be attracted in case ...

The TMC episode and the AAP-BJP merger bring the anti-defection provisions into focus and question: forty years after its ...

The recent split in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has once again brought India’s anti-defection law into sharp focus. This has ...

The concept of a breakaway group no longer exists with the removal — through the Constitution 91st (Amendment) Act, 2003 — of ...

The number of MPs is irrelevant. Two-thirds of the original political party has to merge with another party for protection ...

Unverified claims of inducement to MPs trigger fresh debate on defections, anti-defection law, and coalition stability in Maharashtra politics.

PDT Achary said the anti-defection law protects MPs only if their party formally merges with another party under ...