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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
TopicAnti-defection law

Topic: anti-defection law

Tax exemption for building girls’ schools to penalty for defectors — Sibal’s Insaf collective makes 6 demands

Former Congress leader & now independent Rajya Sabha MP, Kapil Sibal had announced the platform a week ago & on Saturday also demanded 4 constitutional courts of appeal in all regions.

SubscriberWrites: India’s anti-defection Law is being manipulated for personal gains

Speakers have often behaved in an outright partisan manner and have blatantly corrupted the judicial process that was entrusted to them with high hopes and expectations, writes Pramod Patil.

India’s anti-defection law didn’t stop power politics. It just moved from farmhouse to resort

Maharashtra turmoil shows Rajiv Gandhi's 1985 anti-defection law changed nothing, but only left India 'with the worst of both worlds'.

One lone, brave voice stood up against anti-defection law in 1985. All his predictions came true

When it comes to anti-defection law, the cure is worse than the disease.

Defections are a threat beyond election results today. Here are five ways we can fix it

With Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur election results being declared, even the slightest change can rock the boat beyond salvation.

Was the 6 BSP MLAs’ merger with Congress in Rajasthan legal? The law is not settled

Rajasthan HC dismissed BJP MLA Madan Dilawar’s plea against Speaker CP Joshi’s ‘inaction’, but now that merger has been accepted, Dilawar plans to challenge it.

Here’s what the anti-defection law challenged by Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan HC says

The anti-defection law, enshrined in the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, was inserted in 1985 to prevent political defections.

India’s anti-defection law needs changes to promote party-level dissent on issues like CAA

The Anti-Defection Law has created a democracy of parties and numbers in India, rather than a democracy of debate and discussion.

Yogi govt’s ordinance and defiance on posters disregard civil liberties and privacy

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Mani S Aiyar recalls Modi’s anarchy, SY Quraishi says defection ‘mere detour’ for MLAs

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

On Camera

Indian shipping sector is vulnerable to geopolitical unrest. Build local, invest in air cargo

With the ongoing conflict at the Red Sea, India needs to take a long-term view of the PLI scheme and its ambition to emerge as a hub of shipping containers.

Complaints to RBI ombudsman up 68% in FY23, banks biggest cause for customer grievances

Data shows large public sector banks received highest number of complaints in absolute terms, but fared better than several private banks when looked at on complaints-per-branch basis.

Tiger Triumph-24 — India-US tri-services exercise to boost coordination begins

The exercise will be simulated to undertake HADR operations in a ‘friendly island nation’, where troops will execute amphibious landing ops.

CAA comes not with a bang, but with a whimper. Without NRC, it will fade into academic debate

For BJP, CAA was strategic move that did not quite work out because those it would benefit could’ve been accommodated under existing laws, and new entrants would remain excluded.