The sequestrations in palm-fringed resorts, five-star Mumbai hotels and hilltop lodges have become so common that the practice has been coined “resort politics.”
have become increasingly common, to the point where the practice has been coined “resort politics” in Indian media. The tactic has often been associated with the Congress party, the once-dominant party of Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi that has seen its grip over Indian politics — and over its own straying members — loosen in recent years.
“Accepting the outcome of an election is a feature of a healthy democracy, but trying to alter results through defections is a serious breach that’s become normalized in Indian elections,” said Gilles Verniers, a professor of political science at Ashoka University. Verniers said that by trying to woo defectors this week, political parties can prevent their rivals from gaining enough seats to form a government, effectively “betraying the voters’ mandate.
The world’s most populous democracy has a long history with footloose lawmakers. The most famous case was Gaya Lal, a politician from Haryana who switched parties three times in the span of two weeks in 1967. Lal’s maneuvering spawned the popular Hindi saying “Aaya Ram gaya Ram” — “Ram came, Ram went” — to describe the about-faces and horse-trading so frequently observed in Indian legislatures.
In the modern era, political experts say, the Congress party began to take the issue seriously in 2017 after a particularly humiliating defeat in Goa’s state elections. The party had won 17 seats, more than the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 13. Neither party had enough to claim a majority in the 40-seat state assembly, but the BJP scored a coup in the subsequent days by flipping legislators from rival parties and forming a government.
near the Delhi airport, while the Congress party packed its assembly members off to the tourist city of Jaipur. By the time the dust settled, the Congress party had ceded control of Madhya Pradesh to the BJP.
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