CASE COMMENTARY ON HARISH CHANDRA SINGH RAWAT v. UNION OF INDIA by Archana Goswami
Author: Archana Goswami, Student at Jindal Global Law School. BACKGROUND The case deals with the situation where Harish Rawat, the then Chief Minister of Uttarakhand lost majority as 9 members of the party defected to other party. This is a recent case of 2016 dealing with the situation where the center and state have different ruling political parties. The ruling party of the state wanted to pass the Appropriation bill, but…