New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has backed senior advocate and former Union Law Minister Kapil Sibal's proposal to impose a ban on MPs and MLAs who defect from their political parties. CJP's national convener Abhijeet Dipke called the suggestion a 'need of the hour.'

Sibal, while delivering a talk on 'Horse Trade and Democracy' in Kochi, Keralam, recently called for changes to the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution so that party mergers don't act as "loopholes for mass walkouts".

Sibal highlighted that, under current law, a defection does not lead to disqualification if two-thirds of the legislative party members cross over to another party, treating it as a merger.

Sibal emphasised the need to amend the Tenth Sc...