JUST IMAGINE! In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, 363 political parties (seven national parties, 34 state parties, and 242 registered and unrecognised parties) contested, along with 3,831 independent candidates. Thirty-eight political parties (and nine independents) are currently represented in Lok Sabha. Twelve parties have only one member, seven are represented by two members, another 10 have between three to 10 members in Lok Sabha. Only the Congress and the BJP have more than 5 per cent of the seats (27 seats) in the House. With the emergence of new players on the political map — Jaganmohan Reddy’s YSR Congress, B.S. Yeddyurappa’s Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP), Keshubhai Patel’s Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP), P.A. Sangma’s National People’s Party (NPP), Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) — there could be many more parties trying their luck in the 2014 general elections. At last count, there were more than 1,400 political parties registered with the Election Commission of India.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:36:29 +0000
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