Recent events in Rajasthan have brought renewed focus on the Tenth Schedule and the scheme enshrined in that constitutional provision governing the disqualification of legislators who cross party ...

It is highly unlikely that political defections as well as India’s anti-defection law will ever not be a part of public discourse. The Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly, Rahul Narwekar, is currently ...

Times of India’s Edit Page team comprises senior journalists with wide-ranging interests who debate and opine on the news and issues of the day. The Shiv Sena rebellion has put the anti-defection law ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar’s verdict on Wednesday in a batch of petitions filed by the two factions of the Shiv Sena seeking disqualification of rival camp’s legislators may ...

The Karnataka Congress Legislature Party moved the Supreme Court on Friday saying the court's July 17 order allowing 15 dissident MLAs liberty to opt out of Assembly session whittles down the power of ...

Political hustlers over the years have displayed an uncanny flair to subvert the law to their advantage. Whether it is Rajasthan, Karnataka or Madhya Pradesh, a new template appears to have evolved to ...

The Tenth Schedule carves an exception for “mergers” between political parties. Under this exception, a legislator can claim exemption from disqualification if their original political party merges ...

Anti-Defection Law has been in news lately as the High Court of Kolkata asked the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee to pass an order of defection case involving Mukul Roy (an MLA in the ...

HYDERABAD: “Turncoat” legislators T Prakash Goud and Kale Yadaiah, two of the 10 MLAs against whom the BRS has filed disqualification petitions, appeared before the Tribunal that was established under ...