POLITICAL PARTIES

National parties
State parties
Unrecognised parties
India has a multi-party system with recognition accorded to
national, state and district level parties. The status is reviewed
periodically by the Election Commission of India . Other political
parties that wish to contest local, state or national elections are
required to be registered by the Election Commission of India.
Registered parties are upgraded as recognised national or
state level parties based upon objective criteria. A recognised
party enjoys privileges like a reserved party symbol, free
broadcast time on state run television and radio, a consultation in
setting of election dates and giving input in setting electoral rules
and regulations.
NATIONAL PARTIES
A registered party is recognised as a national party only if it fulfils any one of the three
conditions listed below:
■ A party should win 2% of seats in the Lok sabha from at least three different states.
■ At a general election to Lok Sabha or Legislative Assembly, the party polls 6% of votes
in any four or more states and in addition it wins four Lok Sabha seats.
■ A party gets recognition as a state party in four states.
All India Trinamool
Congress
■ IDEOLOGY- Socialism
,Secularism ,Anti-communism
■ FOUNDED- 1 January 1998
■ FOUNDER- Mamata Banerjee
■ PARTY LEADER- Mamata Banerjee
Bahujan Samaj
Party
■ IDEOLOGY- Social equality, Social
justice, Self-respect
■ FOUNDED- 14 April 1984
■ FOUNDER- Kanshi Ram
■ PARTY LEADER- Mayawati
Bhartiya Janta
Party
■ IDEOLOGY-Hindu Nationalism, Integral
humanism, Conservatism, Right-wing
populism
■ FOUNDED-6 April 1980
■ FOUNDER- Syama Prasad Mukherjee,
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L. K. Advani
■ PARTY LEADER- Jagat Prakash Nadda
Communist Party
of India
■ IDEOLOGY- Communism, Marxism,
Leninism
■ FOUNDED-26 December 1925
■ FOUNDER- Shripad Amrit Dange, S.V. Ghate,
Muzaffar Ahmed, Singaravelu Chettiar,
Shaukat Usmani, Ghulam Hussain, K.N.
Joglekar, P.C. Joshi, S.S. Mirajkar
■ PARTY LEADER- D. Raja
Comunist Party of
India (marxist)
■ IDEOLOGY- Communism, Marxism
■ FOUNDED- 7 November 1964
■ FOUNDER- P. Sundarayya, E. M. S.
Namboodiripad, Jyoti Basu
■ PARTY LEADER- Sitaram Yechury
Indian National of
Congress
■ IDEOLOGY- Big Tent, Social democracy,
Democratic socialism, Social liberalism,
Secularism, Progressivism
■ FOUNDED-28 December 1885
■ FOUNDER-Allan Octavian Hume,
William Wedderburn, Dadabhai Naoroji,
Mahadev Govind Ranade
■ PARTY LEADER- Sonia Gandhi
National People’s Nationalist
Party Congress Party
■ IDEOLOGY- Tribal-Centrism ■ IDEOLOGY- Liberalism

■ FOUNDED-6 January 2013 ■ FOUNDED- 10 June 1999

■ FOUNDER- P. A. Sangma ■ FOUNDER- Sharad Pawar, P. A.

Sangma, Tariq Anwar
■ PARTY LEADER- Conrad Sangma
■ PARTY LEADER- Sharad Pawar
STATE PARTIES
A party has to fulfill any of the following conditions for recognition as a state party:
(1) A party should secure at least 6% of valid votes polled in an election to the state
legislative assembly and win at least 2 seats in that state assembly.
(2) A party should secure at least 6% of valid votes polled in an election to Lok Sabha and
win at least 1 seat in Lok Sabha.
(3) A party should win minimum three percent of the total number of seats or a minimum of
three seats in the Legislative Assembly, which ever is higher.
(4) A party should win at least one seat in the Lok Sabha for every 25 seats or any fraction
thereof allotted to that State.
There are total 51 state parties.
Some of them are:

Aam Aadmi Party Indial National Lok Dal

■ FOUNDED-1999
■ FOUNDED- 2012
■ CURRENT LEADER- Om Prakash
■ CURRENT LEADER- Arvind
Chautala
Kejriwal
■ RECOGNISED IN- Haryana
■ RECOGNISED IN- Delhi, Punjab
Janata Dal (secular) Kerala Congress

■ FOUNDED- 1999 ■ FOUNDED- 1979

■ CURRENT LEADER-H. D. Deve ■ CURRENT LEADER- Jose K Mani
Gowda
■ RECOGNISED IN- Kerala
■ RECOGNISED IN- Arunachal
Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala
Samajwadi Party Shiv Sena

■ FOUNDED-1992 ■ FOUNDED- 1966

■ CURRENT LEADER- Akhilesh ■ CURRENT LEADER-Uddhav
Yadav Thackeray
■ RECOGNISED IN- Uttar Pradesh ■ RECOGNISED IN- Maharashtra
UNRECOGNSED PARTIES
■ Revolutionary Communist Party of India---Founded In 1934 , Current
leader is Saumyendranath Tagore, In Assam and West Bengal.
■ Samata Party --- Founded in 1994, Current leader is Uday Mandal, In
Bihar,Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
■ Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League--- Founded in 1943, Current leader is
Bharati Tamang, In West Bengal.
■ Hindu Sena--- Founded in 2011, Current leader is Vishnu Gupta, In New Delhi.
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