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....isions have not been able to achieve the desired goal of checking defections. The Tenth Schedule has also been criticised on the ground that it allows bulk defections while declaring individual defections as illegal. The provision for exemption from disqualification in case of splits as provided in Paragraph 3 of the Tenth Schedule to the Constitution of India has, in particular, come under severe....

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.... the next fresh elections whichever is earlier. It is proposed to accept these suggestions. 3. The NCRWC has also observed that abnormally large Councils of Ministers were being constituted by various Governments at Centre and States and this practice had to be prohibited by law and that a ceiling on the number of Ministers in a State or the Union Government be fixed at the maximum of 10% of the ....