This piece critiques the Bombay High Court's decision in Girish Chodankar, which allows a legislature party to "merge" with another party without a corresponding merger at the political party level...
[Ed Note– This is a two-part series on anti-defection law by our Senior Analyst, Shanthan Reddy. Part I introduces defection law to the readers and explains how the merger exception has been...
[Ed Note: This is a two-part series on anti-defection law by our Senior Analyst, Shanthan Reddy. Part I introduces defection law to the readers and explains how the merger exception has been misused...

