(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: 10th Schedule of the Constitution

Topic: 10th Schedule of the Constitution

Guest:

J. Sai Deepak, (Advocate, Supreme Court)
Shekhar Iyer, (Senior Journalist)
Sushil Chandra Tripathi, (Former Principal Secretary, Uttar Pradesh)

Topic Description:

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said the time has come to revisit the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution. The Vice President, underlining the need to revisit the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution, also known as the anti-defection law, said, “We should discuss this and come to a conclusion. Legislatures are for debate, discussion without disruption. Further, credibility, capability and capacity should be the yardstick for anyone to enter the legislature and not caste, cash and criminality.” A comprehensive relook on the statute is required, he emphasised. The Vice President made his observation at the release of his book, chronicling his two years in office by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Tenth Schedule of the Constitution is better known as the anti-defection law. Allegations of legislators defecting in violation of the law have been made in several states including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Nagaland, Telangana and Uttarakhand in recent years.