Indian General Elections 2009-Special Section
POLITICAL PARTIES
At present in India there are more than 1000 parties
• 7 National Parties namely, Bhartiya Janata Party , Bahujan Samaj Party , Communist Party of India , Communist Party of India ( Marxist), Indian National Congress , Nationalist Congress Party and Rashtriya Janta Dal.
• 40 State Parties .
• 975 Registered Unrecognised Parties.
IMPORTANT PROVISIONS
Allotment of symbols –
In every contested election a symbol shall be allotted to a contesting candidate in accordance with the provisions of this Order and different symbols shall be allotted to different contesting candidates at an election in the same constituency.
Classification of symbols –
(1) For the purpose of this Order symbols are either reserved or free.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in this Order, a reserved symbol is a symbol which is reserved for a recognised political party for exclusive allotment to contesting candidates set up by that party.
(3) A free symbol is a symbol other than a reserved symbol.
Classification of political parties –
(1) For the purposes of this Order and for such other purposes as the Commission may specify as and when necessity therefor arises, political parties are either recognised political parties or unrecognised political parties.
(2) A recognised political party shall either be a National party or a State party.
Conditions for recognition as a National Party –
A political party shall be eligible to be recognized as National party, if, and only if, any of the following conditions is fulfilled:
(i) The candidates set up by the party, in any four or more States, at the last general election to the House of the People, or to the Legislative Assembly of the State concerned, have secured not less than six percent of the total valid votes polled in each of those States at that general election; and, in addition, it has returned at least four members to the House of the People at the aforesaid last general election from any State or States; or
(ii) At the last general election to the House of the People, the party has won at least two percent of the total number of seats in the House of the People, any fraction exceeding half being counted as one; and the party’s candidates have been elected to that House from not less than three States; or
(iii) The party is recognized as State party in at least four States.
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