The provision does suffer from ambiguity, but an attentive reading could suggest that the merger would have to be of the original party with two-thirds of the members agreeing to it...

The Tenth Schedule of the Constitution disqualifies defectors from the membership of legislative bodies, but its Paragraph 4 grants certain exemptions...

The court posted the matter for further hearing to the second week of February...

An effective regulatory framework for political parties should arise out of a constitutional guarantee ...

Speaker to decide, says high court; buzz over compromise candidate as PAC chief...

Mukul Roy’s party hopping is one in a series of similar episodes in the state ever since Trinamul Congress was formed...

Adhikari said the party will urge the court to set a deadline for the Speaker of the Bengal Assembly to conclude the hearing on his application for Roy’s disqualification...

Your Voice: With elections round the corner, youngsters get candid about horse-trading, turncoats and the need of stringent law to counter loyalty shift...

Drawing attention to the manner in which anti-defection law has been rendered ineffective, he emphasised on making it more stringent and effective...

This is the second time former IPS officer Lalduhoma, 71, had fallen to the law...