The National Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) have analyzed the self-sworn affidavits of 433MPs and MLAs, who changed parties and recontested elections held during the last 5 years.
Party-wise share of MPs and MLAs who changed Political Parties
- 170 (42%) MLAs left INC to join another party during the elections held between 2016-2020. While only 18 (4.4%) MLAs left BJP to join a different party to contest elections during this period.
- Between 2016-2020, 182 (44.9%) out of 405 re-contesting MLAs who switched political parties joined the BJP followed by 38 (9.4%) MLAs who joined INC and 25 (6.2%) MLAs who joined TRS.
- 5 (41.7%) Lok Sabha MPs left BJP to join another party during the Lok Sabha elections 2019. While 7 (43.8%) Rajya Sabha MPs left INC to join a different party to contest elections during the elections held between 2016-2020.
- Between 2016-2020, 10 (62.5%) out of 16 recontesting Rajya Sabha MPs who switched political parties joined the BJP, and 5 (41.7%) out of 12 Lok Sabha MPs who changed parties joined INC in the Lok Sabha Election 2019.
- It is to be noted that the recent fall of governments in Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh and Karnataka State Assemblies were due to defections of their MLAs.
