The word Defection may be defined as the “abandonment of loyalty”. When we talk about the Parliamentary type of a government, the word connotes the change of one’s party affiliation. Even though there has been a specific meaning attached to the word, the meaning has still not been the same. The word used before this was ‘floor crossing’ . This particular term finds its first mention in the British House of Commons when a Legislator had changed his party by crossing the floor and moving to the other side i.e. the opposition or when he moved from the opposition to the Ruling’s side.
Therefore, the prodigy of Defection was not at all a new concept in many of the democracies. There were many political stalwarts who managed to change their parties and this incident not only happened once but a couple of times. Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the USA …show more content…
Gandhi’s regime in the 1980s. In the 1960s, some political scientists and even some governors of states who were affected by defection thought it to be a phase which would pass soon”.
There was a clear cut indication that Rajiv Gandhi was not going to continue with Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s political ethos. His stand on political defections had made the fact very clear. On December 29, 1984, Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde of Karnataka tendered the resignation of his Janta Party ministry, taking moral responsibility for his party’s failure to win more than 4 of the state’s 28 parliamentary seats in the national elections. If it was Mrs. Gandhi’s regime, the normal course would have been to engineer defections of some Janta legislators to the Congress (I) to have enabled them to have formed a government or to have imposed the President’s rule. The Assembly was dissolved as the Governor had accepted the resignation of the Chief Minister’s
Therefore, the prodigy of Defection was not at all a new concept in many of the democracies. There were many political stalwarts who managed to change their parties and this incident not only happened once but a couple of times. Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the USA …show more content…
Gandhi’s regime in the 1980s. In the 1960s, some political scientists and even some governors of states who were affected by defection thought it to be a phase which would pass soon”.
There was a clear cut indication that Rajiv Gandhi was not going to continue with Mrs. Indira Gandhi’s political ethos. His stand on political defections had made the fact very clear. On December 29, 1984, Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde of Karnataka tendered the resignation of his Janta Party ministry, taking moral responsibility for his party’s failure to win more than 4 of the state’s 28 parliamentary seats in the national elections. If it was Mrs. Gandhi’s regime, the normal course would have been to engineer defections of some Janta legislators to the Congress (I) to have enabled them to have formed a government or to have imposed the President’s rule. The Assembly was dissolved as the Governor had accepted the resignation of the Chief Minister’s