We Trusted You!

A warm welcome and greetings to the reader, through this paper, we intend to study what defection is, how it affects a democracy and how nations try to tackle it. In a democracy, people elect their leaders. This is one of the basic features of democracy. India is a significant subject of examination because it is one of the best examples of a democracy. But the question this paper addresses is: what if the people we elect start exploiting their power? What shall be done if the people’s representatives switch sides and betray their own party and the nation for personal benefits? Such acts by a corrupt representative make the government collapse the people’s trust are shattered. That’s where the Anti-Defection Law comes into play. In India, the 10th schedule, added by the 52nd amendment, defines our anti-defection laws and provisions. This wasn’t something to be done overnight. It was a major development and took a long, tough journey to be finally enforced. Here we attempt to shed light on the journey of the development of the law, all rises and falls in the due process starting from the. Who took advantage of the broken system, who suffered due to the absence of the law, until when, how, and who brought the law into enforcement? To get a more holistic view, we compare our system with those of our neighbors, discuss the pros and cons of their system and assess what we did right and what we need to improve.