• Dawinder Kaur
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Parliament is based on the principles of deliberations, consent and dissent etc. Working of Indian parliamentary system has been crippled by the menace of defections. Some anti defection provisions were inserted in the Constitution of India by two amendments. These provisions have provided that a member of a house will stood disqualified from his membership, if he defected from his party. It is a salutary provision to control the menace of horse trading. But under these provisions the definition of defection has been constructed so widely as to erode the legitimate rights of the members to express freely in the house. This article argues that in cases of real floor-crossing, the anti defection provisions should be made more severe. But the definition of defection should be kept limited to the instances only of floor-crossing, and the right to dissent should be precluded from its purview.

anti defection law, tenth schedule, horse trading, floor-crossing, 52nd amendment.

"Anti-Defection Law: Curbing Dissent Along with Defection", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no.337-341, December 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06039.pdf

"Anti-Defection Law: Curbing Dissent Along with Defection", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 12, page no. pp337-341, December 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDT06039.pdf