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Defections and the Anti-Defection Law — Why the Tenth Schedule Is Failing India's Democracy

Two editorials, one wound: the 1985 law written to stop defections is now used to organise bigger ones. The partisan adjudicator, the two-thirds rule that scaled defection up instead of stopping it, and the 'resign-and-reface-the-voter' fix that shifts the law from punishment to restitution.