Advantages

The following can be cited as the advantages of the anti-defection law:

(a) It provides for greater stability in the body politic by checking the propensity of legislators to change parties.

(b) It facilitates democratic realignment of parties in the legislature by way of merger of parties.

(c) It reduces corruption at the political level as well as non- developmental expenditure incurred on irregular elections.

(d) It gives, for the first time, a clear-cut constitutional recognition to the existence of political parties.