Number Of National Parties In India

Fifty three political parties had contested the first Lok Sabha polls in 1951. The number of political parties today stands at over 2,500. However, the national party count has gone down to six from 14 in over seven decades.

Trinamool Congress's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, widely perceived as the Number 2 in the party, has upped the ante ahead of the upcoming Panchayat elections in West Bengal and the general elections in 2024.

The number of registered unrecognised political parties increased more than twice between 2010 and 2021 and disproportionately during the year of parliamentary elections, poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said.

In a musical show of unity, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya joined voices today to sing timeless Hindi numbers at a "bhutta party" at the Assembly building.

The BJP under Modi and Shah has often boasted that it is well on its way to becoming India's dominant party in every state - from "Panchayat to Parliament". It certainly occupies the Number 1 position at the Centre and in many states - including at the panchayat level, as the recent results in Maharashtra have shown. However, Uddhav Thackeray has s...

Farmer leaders have asked the government to meet again on December 29 amid protests over new farm laws. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) also lost an ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, on Saturday after its chief Hanuman Beniwal joined the farmers in their protest. In a news conference, farmer leaders said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commen...

The Delhi High Court today termed the number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital as "alarming" while hearing a plea challenging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's decision to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds for coronavirus patients in 33 private hospitals.

The BJP on Saturday announced it would replace senior leaders like Ram Madhav, P Muralidhar Rao, Anil Jain, Saroj Pandey as general secretaries with new faces in a reshuffle of the party's office bearers.

Election in Haryana 2019: The main contesting parties in the state are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Indian National Lok Dal or INLD. A total number of 1,169 candidates are contesting the Haryana elections this year on 90 constituencies (seats).

A large number of BJP workers gathered outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's home today and protested against his remark on party leader Manoj Tiwari, a day afterMr Kejriwal said that the Bihar-born MP would be among the first required to leave the city if a National Register of Citizens were to be carried out in the national capital.

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

BJP chief Amit Shah, for years the closest confidant and chief strategist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be the Home Minister in the new BJP-led government at the centre. The appointment makes Amit Shah, who masterminded the party's landslide victory in elections this month, the de-facto Number 2 in the government.

After a decisive win for the BJP in the national elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah, along with a number of senior party leaders, were at the BJP headquarters in Delhi. PM Modi spoke about the National Democratic Alliance's thumping victory.

For the first time, the BJP is contesting more seats than the Congress in a national election. The ruling party has declared 437 candidates for the polls to the 545-member Lok Sabha. This is the highest number of seats the party has ever contested since it debuted in 1980 as a new avatar of its predecessor Jana Sangh.

The Congress manifesto announced today kept the focus sharply on the bread and butter issues for the people - jobs, minimum income, education, farming - all far from the muscular nationalism and national security the BJP is discussing since the terror attack on Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama. Rahul Gandhi, who made the announcement before the media, s...

Fifty three political parties had contested the first Lok Sabha polls in 1951. The number of political parties today stands at over 2,500. However, the national party count has gone down to six from 14 in over seven decades.

Trinamool Congress's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, widely perceived as the Number 2 in the party, has upped the ante ahead of the upcoming Panchayat elections in West Bengal and the general elections in 2024.

The number of registered unrecognised political parties increased more than twice between 2010 and 2021 and disproportionately during the year of parliamentary elections, poll rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said.

In a musical show of unity, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya joined voices today to sing timeless Hindi numbers at a "bhutta party" at the Assembly building.

The BJP under Modi and Shah has often boasted that it is well on its way to becoming India's dominant party in every state - from "Panchayat to Parliament". It certainly occupies the Number 1 position at the Centre and in many states - including at the panchayat level, as the recent results in Maharashtra have shown. However, Uddhav Thackeray has s...

Farmer leaders have asked the government to meet again on December 29 amid protests over new farm laws. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) also lost an ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party, on Saturday after its chief Hanuman Beniwal joined the farmers in their protest. In a news conference, farmer leaders said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commen...

The Delhi High Court today termed the number of COVID-19 cases in the national capital as "alarming" while hearing a plea challenging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government's decision to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds for coronavirus patients in 33 private hospitals.

The BJP on Saturday announced it would replace senior leaders like Ram Madhav, P Muralidhar Rao, Anil Jain, Saroj Pandey as general secretaries with new faces in a reshuffle of the party's office bearers.

Election in Haryana 2019: The main contesting parties in the state are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Indian National Lok Dal or INLD. A total number of 1,169 candidates are contesting the Haryana elections this year on 90 constituencies (seats).

A large number of BJP workers gathered outside Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's home today and protested against his remark on party leader Manoj Tiwari, a day afterMr Kejriwal said that the Bihar-born MP would be among the first required to leave the city if a National Register of Citizens were to be carried out in the national capital.

The Trinamool Congress has asked the BJP to clarify the exclusion of a large number of Hindus in the final National Register of Citizen (NRC) list in Assam, ahead of party chief Amit Shah's scheduled visit to West Bengal.

BJP chief Amit Shah, for years the closest confidant and chief strategist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be the Home Minister in the new BJP-led government at the centre. The appointment makes Amit Shah, who masterminded the party's landslide victory in elections this month, the de-facto Number 2 in the government.

After a decisive win for the BJP in the national elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah, along with a number of senior party leaders, were at the BJP headquarters in Delhi. PM Modi spoke about the National Democratic Alliance's thumping victory.

For the first time, the BJP is contesting more seats than the Congress in a national election. The ruling party has declared 437 candidates for the polls to the 545-member Lok Sabha. This is the highest number of seats the party has ever contested since it debuted in 1980 as a new avatar of its predecessor Jana Sangh.

The Congress manifesto announced today kept the focus sharply on the bread and butter issues for the people - jobs, minimum income, education, farming - all far from the muscular nationalism and national security the BJP is discussing since the terror attack on Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama. Rahul Gandhi, who made the announcement before the media, s...