India faces a deeply troubling wave of elected representatives defecting, mainly MPs. They exploit Tenth Schedule loopholes, disguising engineered splits as mergers. This allows two-thirds of a party's legislators to switch allegiance without penalty. The Supreme Court's delayed judgments on key constitutional questions enable these "stretched claims" to proliferate, rendering the anti-defection law redundant. This practice crucially boosts the ruling NDA's parliamentary strength, undermining the two-thirds majority intent for constitutional amendments. Such crossovers affront representative democracy and the Constitution's spirit.