{"id":89747,"date":"2019-07-19T16:35:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T11:05:32","slug":"karnataka-crisis-whats-a-whip-and-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/karnataka-crisis-whats-a-whip-and-what-does-it-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka crisis: What\u2019s a \u2018whip\u2019, and what does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A whip in parliamentary parlance is a written\norder that party members be present for an important vote, or that they vote\nonly in a particular way. In India all parties can issue a whip to their\nmembers. <\/li><li>Parties appoint a senior member from among their\nHouse contingents to issue whips \u2014 this member is called a Chief Whip. The\nChief Whip is assisted by additional Whips.<\/li><li>There are three kinds of whips- a) one line\nwhip, b) two line whip and c) three line whip.<\/li><li>A one-line whip, underlined once, is usually\nissued to inform party members of a vote, and allows them to abstain in case\nthey decide not to follow the party line.<\/li><li>A two-line whip directs them to be present\nduring the vote. <\/li><li>A three-line whip is employed on important\noccasions such as the second reading of a Bill or a no-confidence motion, and\nplaces an obligation on members to toe the party line.<\/li><li>In India, rebelling against a three-line whip\ncan put a lawmaker\u2019s membership of the House at risk<\/li><li>The anti-defection law, 1985, contained in the\n10<sup>th<\/sup> Schedule of the Constitution allows the Speaker to disqualify such\na member. The only exception is when more than a third of legislators vote\nagainst a directive, effectively splitting the party.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whip in parliamentary parlance is a written order that party members be present for an important vote, or that they vote only in a particular way. In India all parties can issue a whip to their members. Parties appoint a senior member from among their House contingents to issue whips \u2014 this member is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/karnataka-crisis-whats-a-whip-and-what-does-it-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karnataka crisis: What\u2019s a \u2018whip\u2019, and what does it do?<\/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":[7147],"class_list":["post-89747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-current-affairs","tag-whip","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1703621775,"cached_date":1704848387},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89747","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=89747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}