I am not an expert on our Constitution and my knowledge on our Constitution is limited yet as a layman I still feel the founding fathers of our Constitution where Dr. Ambedcar the Learned luminaryin this subject played a leading role in framing our most lengthy Constitution in the World, committed a big blunder by underestimating the power of the Defectors to bring about the Defection. In fact I feel the makers of our Constitution failed to foresee in our politically corrupt elected representatives the tendency to make use of Defection a mode to jump into another party where they will get maximum personal benefits which is what the defectors anxious to get. No defector is defecting on intellectual or ideological ground, everyone defects only for his or her personal interest. Because of this easy facility the electoral democracy of India is become a big joke and the politicians are become big jokers. Inspite of this mischievous facility to play their political games, the defectors with their game of defection are accepted and tolerated by all the top leaders of the country without any shame because they stand to gain by keeping the defection facility intact since the major parties are using this criminal facility to criminalise the Indian politics in their favour. For this reason both the major parties BJP and Congress do not talk on this worst aspect of our Constitution. Our leading political parties and their respective leaders got no marbles in their Underwears to come out with the solution for this defection, they are so corrupt that they can easily be called the Politcal Rascals in our country.
If Indira Gandhi was genuine leader longing to see the good of the functioning of our electoral political system, she would have long back corrected this malaise of defection when she had absolute majority more than once in the Parliament but she never touched this topic because she was like a sly politician filled with corrupt political practices using Defection everywhere in India for her Congress Party to rule everywhere. And what about the BJP? Are they any better than the Congress? They are worse than the Congress, they are harping everywhere that they want to give clean political system in India but in reality they do the opposite and to see them doing this one need not make use of the Binocular but even with naked eyes one can easily see this.
In the last election Congress won the clear majority entitling it to form the government. But shortly, GFP plus MGP and Independent all joined the BJP to form the Ministry. Following this, one more group of 10 Congress MLA’s without fear of the judiciary to treat their action as ultravires of the constitution nor fear of their voters that they will boycott them in the next election, joined BJP. It is clear now the defectors do not care for anything, with the defection weapon they can convert our democracy into a dictatorship.
The defectors brought their voters to a level of their servants as telling them, “go and vote for me” and voters meekly oblige by giving total authority for the representatives to use their votes the way they want. Then with this backing the MLA’s act like absolute dictators for their own benefits.
It is a pity that nobody in our land is thinking to bring about changes in defection law making it impossible to defect, what Rajiv Gandhi did after his mother’s assassination was negligible. Hence, it is imperative that the National Political Parties must be forced to introduce this topic in their election Manifesto in the next election.
A.Veronica Fernandes.