TABLE OF CONTENT DECLARATION ; CERTIFICATE ; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ; TABLE OF CASES ; CHAPTER- I ; INTRODUCTION ; DEFECTION: DEFINITON AND MEANING; DEFECTION AND POLITICAL PARITES ; WHIP SYSTEM ; ANTI-DEFECTION LAW AND ITS EFFECT ON DEMOCRACY ; DEFECTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES ; CONCEPTUAL CONCEPT ; Research Methodology ; Scope and Limitation ; Methods of Data Collection ; Research Questions ; Hypothesis ; CHAPTER- II ; OPERATION ‘KAMALA’ AND THE ANTI-DEFECTION LAW ; Has the Anti Defection law effective or has it served its purpose or do we need to look beyond it now? ; CHAPTER- III ; RESIGNATION v. DEFECTION IN THE LIGHT OF THE KARNATAKA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY EPISODE; CHAPTER- IV ; ANTI-DEFECTION LAWS IN ISRAEL AND SOUTH AFRICA ; Political Instability and the Evolution of Israeli Anti-Defection Law ; Introduction of the 1991 anti-defection legislation ; Journey from an Efficient Anti-Defection law to a Redistributive one ; Floor Crossing and the Parliamentary Democracy of South Africa ; CHAPTER- V ; THE MADHYA PRADESH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY EPISODE ; Shivraj Singh Chouhan & Ors. Versus Speaker Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly & Ors. ; CONCLUSION ; CHAPTER- VI ; CONCLUSION ; RECOMMENDATIONS: BIBLIOGRAPHY . ARTICLES: BOOKS: INTERNET RESOURCES: REPORTS: