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Two Jharkhand MLAs Disqualified Under Anti-defection Law
Jharkhand Assembly Speaker's Tribunal on Thursday disqualified two legislators under anti-defection law with effect from July 26, an official said.
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Opinion | Fluid Friendships: Over A Quarter Of BJP Candidates Are Defectors
There is an urgent need to reassess the existing anti-defection law and give it more teeth.
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KTR's "Hypocrisy" Dig At Rahul Gandhi As Congress Proposes Anti-Defection Law In Manifesto
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader KT Rama Rao on Saturday criticised the apparent hypocrisy of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party regarding their stance on anti-defection assurance in their manifesto.
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Anti-Defection Law Doesn't Apply: 6 'Rebel' Congress MLAs To Himachal Speaker
The six Congress MLAs, who were issued a show-cause notice for defying the whip for the Rajya Sabha polls on Tuesday, appeared before the Speaker along with their lawyer and argued that they had not been provided all the relevant documents.
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Lalduhoma, Who Once Guarded Indira Gandhi, Set To Be New Mizoram Chief Minister
From earning the dubious distinction of the first MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law to being all set to becoming the chief minister of Mizoram, 73-year-old Lalduhoma's political journey has been all about battling against odds.
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Supreme Court's Query On Speaker's Role In Defection Cases
The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena the Speaker of a House functions like a tribunal in matters related to defection under the anti-defection law.
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BJP MLA Joins Trinamool, Sparks Off Debate On Anti-Defection Law
Another BJP MLA has switched sides in Bengal and joined the state's ruling Trinamool Congress. Suman Kanjilal is the sixth BJP MLA to do so after the 2021 assembly elections.
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Opinion: Fighting The Toothless Tiger - Anti-Defection Law
Yet another non-BJP government has fallen to machinations and midnight conspiracies and the focus is back on the anti-defection law and its purpose.
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Tripura BJP Leader Who Joined Trinamool Disqualified Under Defection Law
Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on Wednesday disqualified BJP MLA Ashis Das, who joined the Trinamool Congress on October 31 last year, under the anti-defection law (the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution).
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Anti-Defection Law As Much Applicable In Bengal As In Other States: Governor
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said that anti-defection laws are as much applicable in West Bengal as they are in other parts of the country.
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Trinamool Leader Slams Suvendu Adhikari, His Father Over Anti-Defection Law
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh hit back at BJP's Suvendu Adhikari for his ''anti-defection law'' comment and asked him to teach the law to his father Sisir Adhikari as he was a TMC MP, who joined the BJP before the polls while he was still holding the post.
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Need To Plug Loopholes In Anti-Defection Law, Says Vice-President
Underlining the need to make the anti-defection law more stringent, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said if loopholes in it are not plugged, "we will be making a mockery of democracy".
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Mizoram Leader Of Opposition Disqualified Under Anti-Defection Law
Mizoram Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo today disqualified Leader of the Opposition, Lalduhoma, as a member of the State Assembly under the anti-defection law. The veteran politician had contested the 2018 assembly polls as an independent and won from the Serchhip constituency and allegedly later defected to the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM).
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Mizoram MLA Lalduhoma Disqualified From Assembly For Defecting
Independent MLA Lalduhoma, who got the dubious distinction of becoming the first Lok Sabha MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law in 1988, was on Friday disqualified as a member of the Mizoram assembly for defecting to the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM).
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Congress, BJP, JDS In 3-Way Battle In Bypoll For Karnataka Assembly Seat
Bypolls to Bengaluru's RR Nagar Assembly seat will be held on November 3; the seat has been vacant since the sitting MLA, N Munirathna, was disqualified under the anti-defection law last year after crossing from the Congress to the BJP
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Two Jharkhand MLAs Disqualified Under Anti-defection Law
Jharkhand Assembly Speaker's Tribunal on Thursday disqualified two legislators under anti-defection law with effect from July 26, an official said.
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Opinion | Fluid Friendships: Over A Quarter Of BJP Candidates Are Defectors
There is an urgent need to reassess the existing anti-defection law and give it more teeth.
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KTR's "Hypocrisy" Dig At Rahul Gandhi As Congress Proposes Anti-Defection Law In Manifesto
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader KT Rama Rao on Saturday criticised the apparent hypocrisy of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party regarding their stance on anti-defection assurance in their manifesto.
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Anti-Defection Law Doesn't Apply: 6 'Rebel' Congress MLAs To Himachal Speaker
The six Congress MLAs, who were issued a show-cause notice for defying the whip for the Rajya Sabha polls on Tuesday, appeared before the Speaker along with their lawyer and argued that they had not been provided all the relevant documents.
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Lalduhoma, Who Once Guarded Indira Gandhi, Set To Be New Mizoram Chief Minister
From earning the dubious distinction of the first MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law to being all set to becoming the chief minister of Mizoram, 73-year-old Lalduhoma's political journey has been all about battling against odds.
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Supreme Court's Query On Speaker's Role In Defection Cases
The Supreme Court on Tuesday told the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena the Speaker of a House functions like a tribunal in matters related to defection under the anti-defection law.
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BJP MLA Joins Trinamool, Sparks Off Debate On Anti-Defection Law
Another BJP MLA has switched sides in Bengal and joined the state's ruling Trinamool Congress. Suman Kanjilal is the sixth BJP MLA to do so after the 2021 assembly elections.
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Opinion: Fighting The Toothless Tiger - Anti-Defection Law
Yet another non-BJP government has fallen to machinations and midnight conspiracies and the focus is back on the anti-defection law and its purpose.
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Tripura BJP Leader Who Joined Trinamool Disqualified Under Defection Law
Tripura Assembly Speaker Ratan Chakraborty on Wednesday disqualified BJP MLA Ashis Das, who joined the Trinamool Congress on October 31 last year, under the anti-defection law (the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution).
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Anti-Defection Law As Much Applicable In Bengal As In Other States: Governor
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday said that anti-defection laws are as much applicable in West Bengal as they are in other parts of the country.
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Trinamool Leader Slams Suvendu Adhikari, His Father Over Anti-Defection Law
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh hit back at BJP's Suvendu Adhikari for his ''anti-defection law'' comment and asked him to teach the law to his father Sisir Adhikari as he was a TMC MP, who joined the BJP before the polls while he was still holding the post.
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Need To Plug Loopholes In Anti-Defection Law, Says Vice-President
Underlining the need to make the anti-defection law more stringent, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said if loopholes in it are not plugged, "we will be making a mockery of democracy".
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Mizoram Leader Of Opposition Disqualified Under Anti-Defection Law
Mizoram Speaker Lalrinliana Sailo today disqualified Leader of the Opposition, Lalduhoma, as a member of the State Assembly under the anti-defection law. The veteran politician had contested the 2018 assembly polls as an independent and won from the Serchhip constituency and allegedly later defected to the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM).
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Mizoram MLA Lalduhoma Disqualified From Assembly For Defecting
Independent MLA Lalduhoma, who got the dubious distinction of becoming the first Lok Sabha MP to be disqualified under the anti-defection law in 1988, was on Friday disqualified as a member of the Mizoram assembly for defecting to the Zoram People's Movement (ZPM).
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Congress, BJP, JDS In 3-Way Battle In Bypoll For Karnataka Assembly Seat
Bypolls to Bengaluru's RR Nagar Assembly seat will be held on November 3; the seat has been vacant since the sitting MLA, N Munirathna, was disqualified under the anti-defection law last year after crossing from the Congress to the BJP
