Congress MP Manish Tewari has introduced a Bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to allow Parliamentarians to take an independent line in voting on Bills and motions other than those affecting the government's stability in a bid to free them from "whip-driven tyranny" and promote "good lawmaking".

Tewari, who introduced the private member's Bill on Friday last to amend the Anti-Defection Law, said his proposed legislation seeks to flag who has primacy in a democracy - the elector who stands in the sun for hours to elect his or her representative or the political party whose whip the representative becomes the helot of.

The Bill, introduced by Tewari for the third time in Lok Sabha after 2010 and 2021, seeks to give Parliamentarians the freedom to toe an independent line in voting on Bills and mot

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