3. DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN A NATIONAL PARTY AND A STATE PARTY. WHAT ROLL IS PLAYED BY REGIONAL PARTY IN THE POLITICS OF ANY COUNTRY?
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Explanation:
In India, regional parties have been coming up at regular intervals playing different roles in the country’s parliamentary democracy. Some parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference were even founded before the country gained independence in 1947. But most of other parties came into existence after country attained freedom.
The growth of state parties, which fall broadly under the rubric of regional parties, picked up particularly after 1967 when the hold of the Indian National Congress, which had spearheaded the freedom struggle, over the country’s electorate began to weaken.
There are about four dozen recognised state parties and about two dozen more which are not yet recognised by the Election Commission of India. At present, some of them are ruling in their respective states and others are waiting for their turn to come to power.
Regional parties have challenged the national parties, gathering popular electoral support, exploiting the national parties’ neglect of the political and economic interests of the region or even the state.
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1. National Party
A registered party is recognized as a National Party if it fulfils one of these conditions:
1. It wins 2% of the seats in Lok Sabha from at least 3 States.
2. The party polls 6% of the votes in 4 States and wins 4 Lok Sabha seats in a General Election.
3. The party gets recognition as a State Party in 4 or more States.
State Party
A registered party is recognized as a State Party if it fulfils any one of the following conditions:
1. It wins minimum 3% of the total number of seats or a minimum of 3 seats in the Legislative Assembly.
2. The party wins at least 1 seat in the Lok Sabha for every 25 seats or any fraction thereof allocated to that State.
3. It secures at least 6% of the total valid votes polled in a General Election to a Lok Sabha or State Legislative Assembly and wins at least 1 Lok Sabha and 2 Legislative Assembly seats in that election.
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Regional parties and Indian politics
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The author writes upon, regional parties role in India, in the country’s parliamentary democracy
Naveen Patnaik, Mayawati, Akhilesh, Karunanidhi, Sukhbir, Omar Abdullah
In India, regional parties have been coming up at regular intervals playing different roles in the country’s parliamentary democracy. Some parties like the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference were even founded before the country gained independence in 1947. But most of other parties came into existence after country attained freedom.
The growth of state parties, which fall broadly under the rubric of regional parties, picked up particularly after 1967 when the hold of the Indian National Congress, which had spearheaded the freedom struggle, over the country’s electorate began to weaken.
There are about four dozen recognised state parties and about two dozen more which are not yet recognised by the Election Commission of India. At present, some of them are ruling in their respective states and others are waiting for their turn to come to power.
Regional parties have challenged the national parties, gathering popular electoral support, exploiting the national parties’ neglect of the political and economic interests of the region or even the state.
One of the oldest regional parties, the Shiromani Akali Dal was established in 1920 by the religious organisation Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) to be the principal representative of Sikhs in the undivided Punjab during the British rule.
At present, regional parties are ruling, either on their own or in alliance with a national party or with other parties, in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Sikkam, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.