{"id":229242,"date":"2023-03-01T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=229242"},"modified":"2023-03-01T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:00:07","slug":"legislator-facing-disqualification-cant-attend-floor-test-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/legislator-facing-disqualification-cant-attend-floor-test-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislator facing disqualification can\u2019t attend floor test: Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cLegislator facing disqualification can\u2019t attend floor test: Supreme Court\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>The Hindu on 29th February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Chief Justice of India \u2013 if an MP or an MLA has caused a split in the party and, is facing disqualification under the anti-defection law due to that, he\/she should not is allowed to participate in a floor test, which was caused by his own acts. Otherwise, it will defeat the very purpose of the Tenth Schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Anti Defection Law?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/issues-in-the-working-of-anti-defection-law\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Floor Test?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-supreme-court-orders-maharashtra-floor-test-tomorrow-what-next\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What does the Constitution say on the role of the Governor in calling the Floor Test?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-in-maharashtra-political-crisis-powers-of-governor-floor-test-law-in-spotlight\/\"><b>Click Here to read\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><b>What are the observations made by the Supreme Court?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of a House are bound by the whip, and any section of MLAs within a political party, which is part of a ruling coalition saying they don\u2019t want to go with the alliance, will attract disqualification.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hence, permitting a legislator whose actions caused a split in the party and who is liable to be disqualified for defection to attend a trust vote would amount to \u201clegitimizing\u201d a \u201cconstitutional sin\u201d. This <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will defeat the very purpose of the Tenth Schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cLegislator facing disqualification can\u2019t attend floor test: Supreme Court\u201d published in The Hindu on 29th February 2023 What is the News? According to the Chief Justice of India \u2013 if an MP or an MLA has caused a split in the party and, is facing disqualification under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/legislator-facing-disqualification-cant-attend-floor-test-supreme-court\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Legislator facing disqualification can\u2019t attend floor test: Supreme Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-229242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":4,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702652946},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}