anti-defection law

Shimla, April 10 – In a setback to the Congress-led Himachal Pradesh government, the High Court has directed the Legislative Assembly to release the pensions and arrears of two former disqualified Congress MLAs – Rajinder Rana and Ravi Thakur – who later joined the BJP.Rana and Thakur, elected...

Shimla, April 10 In response to the plea of former MLAs, Rajinder Rana and Ravi Thakur, who were disqualified under the Anti-defection Law in March 2024, the Himachal High Court has directed the Secretary of the Himachal Vidhan Sabha to release their outstanding pension payments within one month...

Shimla, April 2 The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a bill on Thursday seeking to bar MLAs, disqualified under the anti-defection law, from receiving pensions.Six MLAs were disqualified by Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania in March 2024.The bill will deprive the two first-time MLAs, Chaitanya...

Mumbai, March 23 Maharashtra minister and Shiv Sena leader Shambhuraj Desai alleged on Monday that the BJP exerted political pressure during the Satara Zilla Parishad president election last week, leading to irregularities in the voting process."Democracy was murdered" during the election...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 The Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) has urged the Assembly Speaker to disqualify two of its MLAs under the provisions of the Tenth Schedule (Anti-Defection Law) of the Constitution.The MLAs, Sofia Firdous (Barabati-Cuttack) and Dasarathi Gamango (Mohana), have...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 – The Congress party submitted a formal petition to the Assembly Speaker on Wednesday, seeking the disqualification of two of its MLAs under Article 10 of the Constitution (also known as the anti-defection law) for allegedly cross-voting in the recent Rajya Sabha biennial...

New Delhi, March 17 Opposition parties on Tuesday alleged "horse-trading" in the Bihar Rajya Sabha elections, where all five seats were won by the BJP-led NDA, and demanded a review of the anti-defection law.The BJP and its alliance partners rejected the allegations and said the opposition...

Bhubaneswar, March 17 – The Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in Odisha submitted a petition to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Surama Padhy, on Tuesday, seeking to disqualify three of the party’s legislators under the Anti-Defection Law for allegedly cross-voting during the Rajya Sabha polls...

Hyderabad, March 13 Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Deputy Floor Leader in the Telangana Assembly wrote a letter to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, questioning the "blatant contradiction" between what he preaches nationally about protecting the Constitution and what his party practices in...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist once hailed as the "Chanakya" of West Bengal politics, defined an era of silent political coups and shifting loyalties as a master of defection, yet ironically, he came to embody the very politics he perfected.With the passing of the founding...

Kolkata, February 23 Mukul Roy, a key strategist who was once hailed as the "Chanakya of West Bengal politics," died early Monday after a prolonged illness, bringing to an end a career marked by both engineering and participating in defections.One of the founding members of the Trinamool...