write a note on national parties
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A registered party is recognised as a national party only if it fulfils any one of the following three conditions:[5]
A party should win 2% of seats in the Lok sabha from at least three different states.[6]
At a general election to Lok Sabha or Legislative Assembly, the party polls 6% of votes in any four or more states and in addition it wins four Lok Sabha seats.
A party gets recognition as a state party in four states.
8 recognised national parties[2][4]
Name Abbreviation Foundation
year Founder(s) Party Supremo [D] Party symbol Headquarters
All India Trinamool Congress AITC 1998
Mamata Banerjee
Mamata Banerjee
Flowers & grass
36-G, Topsia Road, Panchannagram, Kolkata-700039 (West Bengal)
Bahujan Samaj Party BSP 1984
Kanshi Ram
Mayawati
Elephant
12, Gurdwara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi-110001 (Delhi)
Bharatiya Janata Party BJP 1980
Syama Prasad Mookerjee (Bharatiya Jana Sangh)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
L. K. Advani
Amit Shah (National President)
J P Nadda (Working President)
BJP Lotus.png
6-A, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Marg, Mandi House, New Delhi-110002 (Delhi)
Communist Party of India CPI 1925
Abani Mukherji
Charu Majumdar
Evelyn Trent
M. N. Roy
M. P. T. Acharya
Mohammed Ali
Mohammed Shafiq Siddiqui
Rafiq Ahmed
Rosa Fitinghoff
Sultan Ahmed
D. Raja
Ears of Corn and Sickle
Ajoy Bhavan, 15, Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi-110002, (Delhi)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 1964
E. M. S. Namboodiripad
Jyoti Basu
Sitaram Yechury
Hammer Sickle and Star
27-29, A. K. Gopalan Bhavan, Bhai Vir Singh Marg, New Delhi-110001 (Delhi)
Indian National Congress INC 1885
Allan Octavian Hume
Dadabhai Naoroji
Dinshaw Wacha
Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee
Sonia Gandhi (Interim President)
Hand
24, Akbar Road, New Delhi-110001 (Delhi)
Nationalist Congress Party NCP 1999
P. A. Sangma
Sharad Pawar
Tariq Anwar
Sharad Pawar Clock 10, Bishambhar Marg, New Delhi-110001 (Delhi)
National People's Party NPP 2013
P. A. Sangma
Conrad Sangma Indian Election Symbol Book.svg M.G. Avenue, Floor, MDU Building, Imphal-795001 (Manipur)
Answer:
1. a party that secures at least 6 percent of the total votes in the Lok Sabha elections or the Assembly elections in four states , and wins at least 4 seats in the Lok Sabha is recognized as a National Party.
2. These raise national issues
3. For example the Indian National Congress