MODULE 4 – Major National-Regional Political Parties

By Harshidha Hareesh

2.Major National-Regional Political Parties

party is recognised as a National Party only if it fulfils any one of the following three conditions:

1. The party wins 2% of seats in the Lok Sabha (as of 2014, 11 seats) from at least 3 different States.
2. At a General Election to Lok Sabha or Legislative Assembly, the party polls 6% of votes in four States and in addition it wins 4 Lok Sabha seats.
3. A party gets recognition as State Party in four or more States.
4. These parties are given unique symbols only the official candidates of that party can use that symbol.
5. The parties that get this privileges and some other special facilities are recognised by the election Commission of India for this purpose.
6. That is why these parties are called recognised parties.

As recognised by Election Commission of India as in March 2014

Subcategories

This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.

B

• ► Bahujan Samaj Party‎ (1 C, 5 P)
• ► Bharatiya Janata Party‎ (10 C, 22 P)

C

• ► Communist Party of India‎ (3 C, 17 P)
• ► Communist Party of India (Marxist)‎ (3 C, 20 P)

I

• ► Indian National Congress‎ (12 C, 50 P)

N

• ► Nationalist Congress Party‎ (1 C, 9 P)