national and state politics
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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.
India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the President of India is the head of state and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government although the word is not used in the constitution itself.
A state government is the government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government. A state government may have some level of political autonomy, or be subject to the direct control of the federal government.