Political parties: India
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Number of Political parties
In 1951
NATIONAL PARTIES
1. BJS: ALL INDIA BHARTIYA JAN SANGH
2. BPI: BOLSHEVIK PARTY OF INDIA
3. CPI: COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
4. FBL(MG): FORWARD BLOC (MARXIST GROUP)
5. FBL(RG): FORWARD BLOC (RUIKAR GROUP)
6. HMS: AKHIL BHARATIYA HINDU MAHASABHA
7. INC: INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
8. KLP: KRISHIKAR LOK PARTY
9. KMPP: KISAN MAZDOOR PRAJA PARTY
10. RCPI: REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA
11. RRP: AKHIL BHARATIYA RAM RAJYA PARISHAD
12. RSP: REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST PARTY
13. SCF:All INDIA SCHEDULED CASTE FEDERATION
14. SP: SOCIALIST PARTY
OTHER STATE PARTIES
15. AMN: ALL MANIPUR NATIONAL UNION
16. APP: ALL PEOPLES PARTY
17. CNSPJP: CHOTA NAGPUR SANTHAL PARGANAS JANTA PARTY
18. CP: COCHIN PARTY
19. CWL: COMMON WEAL PARTY
20. DCL: PUNJAB DEPRESSED CLASS LEAGUE
21. GP: ALL INDIA GANTANTRA PARISHAD
22. GSS: GANDHI SEBAK SEVA
23. HPP: HILL PEOPLE PARTY
24. HR: HISTORICAL RESEARCH
25. HSPP: HYDERABAD STATE PRAJA PARTY
26. JHP: JHARKHAND PARTY
27. JUSP: JUSTICE PARTY
28. KJD: KHASI-JAINTIA DURBAR
29. KJSP: KISAN JANTA SANYUKTA PARTY
30. KKP: KAMGAR KISAN PAKSHA
31. KMM: KISAN MAZDOOR MANDAL
32. KNA: KUKI NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
33. KSP: KERALA SOCIALIST PARTY
34. LSS: LOK SEWAK SANGH
35. ML: MADRAS STATE MUSLIM LEAGUE PARTY
36. NAT: NATIONAL PARTY OF INDIA
37. PDF: PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC FRONT
38. PP: PRAJA PARTY
39. PURP: PURSHARATHI PANCHAYAT
40. PWP: PEASANTS & WORKERS PARTY
41. REP: All INDIA REPUBLICAN PARTY
42. RPP: All INDIA REPUBLICAN PARTY
43. RSP(UP): U.P. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST PARTY
44. SAD: SHIROMANI AKALI DAL
45. SKP: S.K. PAKSHA
46. SKS: SAURASHTRA KHEDUT SANGH
47. TNT: THE TAMIL NAD TOILERS PARTY
48. TP: TAMIL NAD CONGRESS PARTY
49. TS: TRIBAL SANGHA
50. TTC: TRAVANCORE TAMIL NAD CONGRESS PARTY
51. UKS: ALL INDIA UNITED KISAN SABHA
52. UPPP: U.P. PRAJA PARTY
53. ZP: ZAMINDAR PARTY
In 2016
Over 1,900 parties in India, 400 never fought polls: EC, Dec 8, 2016: The Times of India
They Could Be Conduits For Black Money
Politics seems to be ingrained in Indians as the country has the largest number of political parties in the world, over 1,900 according to chief election commissioner Nasim Zaidi, but over 400 of them have never contested any election. Zaidi suspected that these could be conduits for turning black money into white.
However, the Election Commission (EC) has started an exercise to strike off such parties from its list. “Striking off their names will disentitle them from income tax exemptions on contributions and donations,“ Zaidi said. Asked why the EC was not deregistering them, the CEC said deregistration was a long-drawn process.“Eventually, we may have to do that, but this is the immediate action taken by the EC on finding the anomaly,“ he said. The EC has asked state CECs to send it a comprehensive report of lists of registered parties which have never contested an election and also the contributions received by them, Zaidi said. He said that from now on, it would be an annual exercise to prune the list of registered parties.
2017 : Small Parties
Ashish Mishra , Small fry a party for everyone “ India Today “ 2/2/2017
Dhananjay Singh was a member of Parliament from the Bahujan Samaj Party for five years, between 2009 and 2014. Before the 2012 assembly elections, Mayawati expelled Singh, an accused in over two dozen criminal cases. This year, when Singh found he was still persona non grata, he turned to the Nishad Party. Vijay Misra, a sitting Samajwadi Pary MLA, was denied a ticket by Akhilesh Yadav because of the number of criminal charges, including murder, that he faces. He too is now a candidate for the Nishad Party. Founded by Sanjay Kumar Nishad, the Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal has been carefully named so that its acronym aligns it with the Nishad (boatman) community, a substantial voting bloc.
UP has 472 political parties registered with the Election Commission. These parties play a major role, particularly when the race is as tight as this year's, when every party with votes becomes a potential partner in a cobbled-together government.
In 2012, the Peace Party won three assembly seats and captured 2.35 per cent of the vote, making it the sixth largest party in the state. This year, the Peace Party has formed a coalition with the Nishad Party. The coalition also includes the Krishna Patel-led Apna Dal and former BSP minister Babu Singh Kushwaha's Jan Adhikar Manch. This alliance of small fry will contest all 403 seats in the state. As Sanjay Kumar Nishad explains, "More than 200 constituencies in the state have more than one lakh people belonging to either the Nishad, Kurmi, Kushwaha or 'backward Muslim' communities." With those kinds of numbers, the major parties will be looking over their shoulders.
