Jharkhand
Disqualification Under Anti-Defection Law
- 27 Jul 2024
- 1 min read
Why in News?
Recently, the Jharkhand Assembly Speaker disqualified two legislators under the Anti-Defection Law.
Key Points
- Both the legislators have been found guilty of defection under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.
- Anti-Defection Law
- The anti-defection law punishes individual Members of Parliament (MPs)/Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) for leaving one party for another.
- Parliament added it to the Constitution as the Tenth Schedule in 1985 in order to bring stability to governments by discouraging legislators from changing parties.
- The Tenth Schedule - popularly known as the Anti-Defection Act - was included in the Constitution via the 52nd Amendment Act, 1985.
- It sets the provisions for the disqualification of elected members on the grounds of defection to another political party.
- It was a response to the toppling of multiple state governments by party-hopping MLAs after the general elections of 1967.
