{"id":7967,"date":"2019-07-12T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2019-07-12T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T10:49:36","slug":"anti-defection-law-what-can-disqualify-a-legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-defection-law-what-can-disqualify-a-legislator\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-defection Law: What can disqualify a legislator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The anti-defection law is contained in the 10th\nSchedule of the Constitution. <\/li><li>It was enacted by Parliament in 1985. It came\ninto effect on 1st March 1985.<\/li><li>The purpose of the anti-defection law is to curb\npolitical defection by the legislators. The law applies to both Parliament and\nstate assemblies.<\/li><li>It lays down the process by which legislators\nmay be disqualified on grounds of defection by the Presiding Officer of a\nlegislature based on a petition by any other member of the House.<\/li><li>There are two grounds on which a member of a\nlegislature can be disqualified: a) if he\/she voluntarily gives up the\nmembership of his\/her party and b) if a legislator votes in the House against\nthe direction of his\/her party and his\/her action is not condoned by his party.<\/li><li>There is an exception that has been provided in\nthe law to protect the legislators from disqualification. The 10th Schedule\nsays that if there is a merger between two political parties and two-thirds of\nthe members of a legislature party agree to the merger, they will not be\ndisqualified.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-defection law is contained in the 10th Schedule of the Constitution. It was enacted by Parliament in 1985. It came into effect on 1st March 1985. The purpose of the anti-defection law is to curb political defection by the legislators. The law applies to both Parliament and state assemblies. It lays down the process&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/anti-defection-law-what-can-disqualify-a-legislator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anti-defection Law: What can disqualify a legislator<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1234],"tags":[7135],"class_list":["post-7967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-anti-defection-law","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}