Shankar Sharan Author at ThePrint

Perhaps, we should adopt the German system of 2 votes — one for constituency, and another for party.
The constituency votes are fixed, but party votes are used for additional seat allocation on proportional basis.
We can allow constituency elected MP, to defect, but not the party elected MP.

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