Seven MPs leave the Aam Aadmi Party. The BJP moves closer to a majority in the Rajya Sabha. And a law meant to stop defections appears to have enabled one.

When Raghav Chadha and six other MPs switched sides, the Rajya Sabha Chairman accepted it as a “merger” under the anti-defection law. But was it really a merger — or a coordinated defection?

In this episode of Let Me Explain, Pooja Prasanna breaks down what the Tenth Schedule actually says, how the two-thirds rule works, and why legal experts are divided. Does this case expose a loophole in the law? And is the anti-defection law still serving its purpose?

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