Defections: Take away the Speaker’s powers

In a recent address at Bengaluru, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu lamented that the anti-defection law had failed to check mass defections and suggested an amendment in the law to stop it. The lamentation and suggestion coming from someone who had been BJP president sounds bold, as several mass defections in the recent years have been engineered by the party. However, Naidu was speaking there not as a BJP man but as Vice-President and his observation does not apply to one party.

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