Question

discuss the classification of political parties in india about 100 words for ignou​

Answer 1

Explanation:

In terms of geographical spread there are four types of Parties, All India parties, trans-regional parties, regional parties and local parties. In terms of orientation, there are parties of left, right, centre and leader oriented parties.

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Among the left there are communist parties and socialist groups, among the right there are traditional parties formed around religious community and caste. We may further classify Indian Parties in the following way:

(i) All India political parties or National Parties:

All-India political parties have been officially defined as those national parties with broad-based national support and able to win at least six per cent of valid votes polled in any four or more States at the general elections to the Lok Sabha or to the Legislative Assembly and in addition win at least four seats in the Lok Sabha from any State or States.

The other criteria is that a political party wins at least two per cent seats in the Lok Sabha from at least three different States. There should be a minimum of 11 MPs among the 543 directly elected representatives, thereby giving weight-age to party presence in the Lok Sabha.