• Prashna Samadar

Party discipline is the impulse in a parliamentary system; when it falls short, the government typically falls. The forum of Indian politics undoubtedly suffers from countless practical disorders. The defection policy is one such species that involves gross miscarriage of equal actions that turns politics into a throne game (powers). In the womb of the British House of Commons, this tradition of political nomaditude can trace its seeds. Therein, if it was found that a legislator crossed the floor, the party considered him disloyal. In other words, by joining another party, the legislator lost his allegiance to his former party. In fact, this very phenomenon has two-way traffic, i.e. the ruling party to the opposition party or vice versa. Democracies such as the United States, Australia and Canada were also aware of this method of sharing loyalties. There have been many cases of great politicians, such as Winston Churchill, Ramsay McDonald, William Gladstone, etc., shifting party loyalty. Nevertheless, it is important to note that none of the democracies in the West ever chose or felt the need to legally prohibit defections, because of such a tradition of shifting party loyalty. Exceptionally, however, India can be traced to have passed anti-defection legislation. On the floor of the Indian Parliamentary system, the politics of defection had been a distinctive common practice steadily gulping the Federation's political nature and synchronization. This research, which seeks to analyze whether parliamentary democracy has lost its meaning due to democratic nomadism, is both empirical and doctrinal. In a democratic democracy, the present study also analyzes the classical as well as contemporary pulse of floor crossing amid dynastic politics. In view of the anti-defection statute, it will briefly address the panorama of defections under the Indian federal system and an effort has been made to add useful suggestions to streamline solutions for the still prevalent political defections.

Constitutional law; defection; democracy; and political anti-trust.

"A Study of Anti-Defection Law", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.230-233, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREQ06051.pdf

"A Study of Anti-Defection Law", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp230-233, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIREQ06051.pdf