 bill no  xxiii  of 2017 the constitution (amendment) bill, 2017 a bill further to amend the constitution of indiabe it enacted by parliament in the sixty-eighth year of the republic of india as follows:—1 (1) this act may be called the constitution (amendment) act, 2017short title and commencement5(2)  it shall come into force on such date as the central government may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint2 in article 75 of the constitution:—amendment of article 75(i) after clause (1b), the following clause shall be inserted, namely,—10"(1c) a member of either house of parliament belonging to any political party against whom a petition for disqualification under the tenth schedule is pending before the competent authority shall not be eligible to be included in the council of ministers till the disqualification petition is set aside by the competent authority:15provided that if a disqualification petition under the tenth schedule is filed against a member of the council of ministers belonging to any political party, the competent authority under the tenth schedule shall take its decision within one hundred and eighty days from date of filing such petition"(ii) after clause (4) the following clause shall be inserted namely,—5"(4a) a member of the either house of parliament belonging to a political party other than the political party to which the prime minister belongs shall submit a written consent from the head of the polical party to which he or she belongs for his or her inclusion in the council of ministers to the president before taking oath of office and of secrecy according to forms set out for the purpose in the third schedule"3 in article 164 of the constitution,—(i) after clause (1b), the following clause shall be inserted namely,—amendment of article 16410(1c) a member of the legislative assembly of a state of either house of the legislature of a state having legislative council belonging to any political party against whom a petition for disqualification under the tenth schedule is pending before the competent authority shall not be eligible to be included in the council of ministers till the disqualification petition is set aside by the competent authority:15provided that if a disqualification petition under the tenth schedule is filed against a member of the council of ministers belonging to any political party, the competent authority under the tenth scheule  shall take its decision within one hundred and eighty days from date of filing such petition (ii)  after clause (3) of the constitution, the following clause shall be inserted namely,—20(3a) a member of the legislative assembly of a state or either house of the legislature of a state having legislative council belonging to a political party other than the political party to which the chief minister belongs shall submit a written consent from the head of the political party to which he or she belongs for his or her inclusion in the council of ministers to the governor before taking oaths of office and of secrecy according to forms set out for the purpose in the third schedule statement of objects and reasonsin a democratic country, the political parties are the integral part the political  parties before the independence had formed with a firm ideology and strong basic  principle and any action of any member in the party deviating from its basic principle is considered as antiparty activity however, over the period the political parties have given go bye to their basic ideology and started changing the principles of the party over the particular issues differing from other parties over the basic ideology is not seen in the activities of political parties today and they are ready to mingle with other political parties having exactly opposite ideology, based on issues and circumstancesin the changing scenario, the members of political parties also changing loyalities over the night and venturing into other political parties particularly in ruling for their personal prospects the parties in power also concentrating to achieve success by weakening the opposition parties by attracting leaders and cadres from other parties  rather than strengthening their own party by doing good to the peoplethough the constitution was amended to curb this political evil of defection by introducing tenth schedule to the constitution, the new practice to keep pending the disqualification petitions on the grounds of defection by the chairman or speaker for years together is undesirable  during the pendency of these disqualification petitions, the defected members are being offered remunerative political posts including post of a minister apart from government contractsthis bill seeks to further amend constitution to prohibit these defectors to enter into the ministerial berths further this bill also seeks to insist a consent letter from the head of the party to include its party's legislator into cabinet to ensure member's loyalty to the party during coalition governments further, any legislator of party after joining the cabinet ventures to anti-party activities, the party can file a disqualification petition before the competent authority for his disqualification, which the competent authority has to decide in one-hundred and eighty dayshence this billdr  kv p  ramachandra rao rajya  sabha————— a billfurther to amend the constitution of india—————(dr kvp ramachandra rao, mp)gmgipmrnd—1769rs(s)—04-08-2017