Twenty-Year Electoral Ban for Defectors
Any sitting MP or MLA who defects from the party they were elected on must be barred from contesting any election — central, state or local — for twenty years.
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The Demand
A voter casts a ballot for a party as much as for a face. When the face leaves the party the next monsoon, the vote was a hoax. We demand a twenty-year electoral ban — from local body to Lok Sabha — for any legislator who defects from the party that nominated them.
Why This Matters
The Tenth Schedule, in its current form, was supposed to end horse-trading. It now contains a loophole — the "two-thirds defection" clause — large enough to drive a chartered jet through. Entire state governments have changed hands inside that loophole.
A democracy in which a winning manifesto can be replaced by a different manifesto within months, without a fresh mandate, is a democracy that has lost the plot.
Context
Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Manipur — the list is now embarrassing. Each operation followed the same template: enough MLAs resigned to trigger a bypoll, the same MLAs contested on the rival party’s ticket, and the government changed.
Twenty years is the length of a political career. That is intentional.
What Signing Does
The petition will be filed with the Standing Committee on Constitutional Reform and circulated to every MP in the current Lok Sabha. The signer count is the easiest pressure metric Parliament understands.