{"id":61126,"date":"2025-12-09T18:57:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=61126"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:17:40","slug":"bill-amendment-tenth-schedule-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/09-12-2025\/bill-amendment-tenth-schedule-lok-sabha","title":{"rendered":"Bill Seeking Amendment to Tenth Schedule Introduced in Lok Sabha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS2\/Polity and Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A private member&#8217;s bill<\/strong> titled \u201c<strong>The Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (Amendment of the Tenth Schedule)\u201d<\/strong> has been introduced in Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Major Highlights of the Bill<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Tenth Schedule to the Constitution<\/strong>, popularly known as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-07-2025\/anti-defection-law-role\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/01-07-2025\/anti-defection-law-role\"> <strong>Anti-Defection Law<\/strong><\/a>, was added to the Constitution by the Constitution<strong>(Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The Bill <\/strong>prescribes that a member <strong>will lose their seat only<\/strong> if they vote, or abstain from voting, in violation of their party\u2019s direction on a Confidence Motion, No-confidence Motion, Adjournment Motion, Money Bill, or other financial matters \u2014 <strong>and not for any other type of vote.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It allows parliamentarians<\/strong> to take an independent line in voting on bills and motions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is Whip?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A whip<\/strong> refers to an order <strong>to members of a party in the House<\/strong> to abide by a certain direction of the party.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Political parties issue whips to their MPs to either vote for or against the bill, depending on their party line.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Once the whip is issued, the MPs from each party will <strong>necessarily have to obey the whip<\/strong> or else risk losing their seat in Parliament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The term is derived from the old <strong>British practice of \u201cwhipping in\u201d<\/strong> lawmakers to follow the party line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It is not mentioned in the constitution<\/strong> but is considered a parliamentary convention.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Parties appoint a senior member from among their House contingents to issue whips \u2014 this member is called a <strong>chief whip,<\/strong> and he\/ she is assisted by <strong>additional whips.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Types of Whip<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>There are three kinds.&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A one-line whip<\/strong> just informs members about a vote but permits them to abstain.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>A two-line whip<\/strong> asks them to be present but does not tell them how to vote.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The three-line whip,<\/strong> largely the norm these days, directs members to be present and vote as per the party line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Importance of a whip&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The whip maintains discipline, secure attendance of, and gives necessary information to, members of the party.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is a <strong>channel of communication<\/strong> between the political party and the members of the party in the legislature.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They also serve the <strong>function of gauging the opinion<\/strong> of the members, and communicating it to party leaders.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Anti Defection Law<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>Tenth Schedule of the Constitution,<\/strong> also known as the anti-defection law, was added to <strong>prevent political defections.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Disqualification on ground of defection:<\/strong> A legislator belonging to a political party will be disqualified if he\/she:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>voluntarily<\/strong> gives up his party membership, or&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>votes\/abstains to vote in the House <strong>contrary to the direction<\/strong> issued by his political party.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Independent members<\/strong> will be disqualified if they <strong>join a political party <\/strong>after getting elected to the House.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nominated members<\/strong> will be disqualified if they join any political party <strong>six months after getting nominated.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A member is not disqualified if he has taken <strong>prior permission<\/strong> of his party, or if the voting or abstention is condoned by the party within 15 days.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Exemptions in cases of merger:<\/strong> Members are exempted from such disqualification when <strong>at least two thirds<\/strong> of the original political party merges with another political party.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>the <strong>members must have become members of the party<\/strong> they have merged with\/into,&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>or they should have not accepted the merger and choose to <strong>function as a separate group.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Decision making authority:<\/strong> The decision to disqualify a member from the House rests with the <strong>Chairman\/Speaker of the House.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/manish-tewari-introduces-bill-in-lok-sabha-to-free-mps-from-whip-tyranny-promote-good-law-making\/article70370886.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">A private member&#8217;s bill titled \u201cThe Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2025 (Amendment of the Tenth Schedule)\u201d has been introduced in Lok Sabha.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Major Highlights of the Bill<\/strong><\/p>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Tenth Schedule to the Constitution, popularly known as the Anti-Defection Law, was added to the Constitution by the Constitution (Fifty-second Amendment) Act, 1985.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">The Bill prescribes that a member will lose their seat only if they vote, or abstain from voting, in violation of their party\u2019s direction on a Confidence Motion, No-confidence Motion, Adjournment Motion, Money Bill, or other financial matters \u2014 and not for any other type of vote.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ms-5\">It allows parliamentarians to take an independent line in voting on bills and motions.<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"btn btn-primary btn-sm float-end\">Read\u00a0More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61472,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61126\/revisions\/61472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}