Political Parties and Political system in India
Aam Aadmi recognised as a National party
- The Election Commission has recognised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a national party and withdrew the national party status of the All India Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).
- With the removal of the NCP, the CPI and the Trinamool, there are now only six national parties in the country
- The Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP),
- The Congress,
- The National People’s Party (NPP),
- The Communist Party of India Marxist (CPIM),
- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and
- The latest addition, the AAP.
For recognition as a NATIONAL PARTY, the conditions specified are:
- a 6% vote share in the last Assembly polls in each of any four states, as well as four seats in the last Lok Sabha polls; or
- 2% of all Lok Sabha seats in the last such election, with MPs elected from at least three states; or
- recognition as a state party in at least four states.
