Critics argue the rule, intended to stop politicians jumping parties, hurts the country’s democracy. Defectors tend to be enticed by the promise of money and power. But in theory they should be unable to jump ship. In 1985 India’s government introduced a law designed to curb “the evil of political defections”. In june about 40 rebels from the Shiv Sena, the largest party in the coalition governing Maharashtra, India’s richest state, set up camp in a luxury hotel in Guwahati, more than 1,000 miles away. What really is the India’s anti-defection law?

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