170 MLAs Left Congress To Join Other Parties To Contest Polls Between 2016-20: Report

New Delhi:

As many as 170 MLAs left the Congress to affix different events through the elections held between 2016-2020, whereas solely 18 BJP legislators switched events to contest the polls on this interval, in keeping with a report by ballot rights group Affiliation for Democratic Reforms (ADR).

The ADR, in a brand new report, mentioned between 2016-2020, 182 of the 405 re-contesting MLAs, who switched political events, joined the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), adopted by 38 who joined the Congress and 25 who joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).

5 Lok Sabha MPs left the BJP to affix different events through the 2019 Lok Sabha polls whereas seven Rajya Sabha MPs left the Congress to affix one other social gathering to contest elections between 2016-2020, the report mentioned.

As many as 170 MLAs left the Congress to affix different events through the elections held between 2016-2020, whereas solely 18 MLAs left the BJP to affix one other social gathering to contest polls on this interval, it added.

“It’s to be famous that the current fall of governments in Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh and Karnataka State Assemblies have been because of defections of their MLAs,” the report mentioned.
It mentioned between 2016-20, 10 of the 16 re-contesting Rajya Sabha MPs who switched political events joined the BJP and 5 of the 12 Lok Sabha MPs who modified events joined the Congress through the 2019 parliamentary polls.

For the report, the Nationwide Election Watch and the ADR have analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 433 MPs and MLAs, who modified events and re-contested elections held within the final 5 years.