Is the Anti-Defection Law Adequate? Responding to Manish Tewari's Article for Addressing Complexities, Proposing Reform Measures, and Tackling the Persistent Challenge of "Aya Ram Gaya Ram" Culture.
Really interesting. Just finished reading it (and learning a bit of the Hindi names of your political bodies 😹).
Even if Perú's political system is far simpler (we only have 33 millions of habitants, compared to India's 1400 millions, so we don't have internal states and our Parliament only has one house), we are currently suffering from massive defections and the forming of small parliamentary groups, and even small new parties.
Those groups and parties are motivated by personal interests (many of them of criminal nature) so the public opinion is strongly bent into the idea of introducing some kind of control or limitation for this phenomena.
Reading into India's past and present might help us avoid the pitfalls your people are now trying to fix.
I totally get you. Of course, area of the your country Incas would be much bigger but my state of Punjab in India has about the same population. Of course, no Andes Mountains. All plain terrain.
But let me tell you one thing, smaller the electorate more fiercely fought the election is.
BIG TAKE: Don't complain....get into politics. Write, write, write! You have a great talent and a great platform.
Law in statute and law in practice is different in our country. Law enforcers misuse the way it suits them. Laws are always enacted on the basis of public convenience and morality. Public convenience means suitability to the rulers and morality means nothing for political class, they come in the proviso of exempted class. This is the irony of our legal system and indian democracy
To save Indian Democracy, stringent anti defection bill is a amust. Once elected by voters, MP/MLA should not be allowed to change political party unless he/she is re elected by voters in fresh election. No division of political party should be allowed mid term of State Assemblies/Lok Sabha terms.
Really interesting. Just finished reading it (and learning a bit of the Hindi names of your political bodies 😹).
Even if Perú's political system is far simpler (we only have 33 millions of habitants, compared to India's 1400 millions, so we don't have internal states and our Parliament only has one house), we are currently suffering from massive defections and the forming of small parliamentary groups, and even small new parties.
Those groups and parties are motivated by personal interests (many of them of criminal nature) so the public opinion is strongly bent into the idea of introducing some kind of control or limitation for this phenomena.
Reading into India's past and present might help us avoid the pitfalls your people are now trying to fix.
Great info!
I totally get you. Of course, area of the your country Incas would be much bigger but my state of Punjab in India has about the same population. Of course, no Andes Mountains. All plain terrain.
But let me tell you one thing, smaller the electorate more fiercely fought the election is.
BIG TAKE: Don't complain....get into politics. Write, write, write! You have a great talent and a great platform.
Best wishes!
Law in statute and law in practice is different in our country. Law enforcers misuse the way it suits them. Laws are always enacted on the basis of public convenience and morality. Public convenience means suitability to the rulers and morality means nothing for political class, they come in the proviso of exempted class. This is the irony of our legal system and indian democracy
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Fair and fearless comment.
To save Indian Democracy, stringent anti defection bill is a amust. Once elected by voters, MP/MLA should not be allowed to change political party unless he/she is re elected by voters in fresh election. No division of political party should be allowed mid term of State Assemblies/Lok Sabha terms.