Congress leader Manish Tewari has introduced a bill in Lok Sabha that seeks to allow MPs to take an independent stand when voting on bills and motions and free them compulsions of party lines and “whip-driven tyranny", while promoting good law-making.

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.

This bill has been introduced by Tewari for the third time after 2010 and 2021. It seeks to give parliamentarians the freedom to toe an independent line in voting on bills and motions other than a confidence motion, no

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