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When is a Political Party recognised as a National or State Party?
All India Trinamool Congress became the seventh political party to be recognised as a National Party in the country. BJP, Congress, CPI, CPI(M), BSP & NCP are six other political parties to be recognised as National Parties. But when is a party recognized as a State or National Party?
All India Trinamool Congress became the seventh political party to be recognised as a National Party in the country. BJP, Congress, CPI, CPI(M), BSP & NCP are six other political parties to be recognised as National Parties. But when is a party recognized as a State or National Party?
The Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968 A registered political party is accorded the status of a recognised state or national party as per the criteria listed in ‘The Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968’. This order was amended from time to time.
Recognition as a State Party
For any political party to be eligible for recognition as a State Party in a state, it has to satisfy any of the five conditions listed below.
In brief, the five conditions are:
Recognition as a National Party
For any political party to be eligible for recognition as a National Party, it has to satisfy any of the three conditions listed below.
In brief, the three conditions are:
Trinamool Congress is now recognised as a National Party as it has satisfied the eligibility criteria for a State Party in the four states of West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur & Arunachal Pradesh.
Though some of the other six national parties did not perform as well in the recently held elections, their national party status is intact following an amendment made to the allotment rules recently. Their status will now be reviewed only after the next general election.
Advantages of being recognised as a State or National Party
The biggest advantage of being recognised is getting the reserved symbol. A party recognised as a state party gets a reserved symbol from the list of free symbols. All the candidates contesting from that party will get the same symbol throughout the state. For National Parties, the reserved symbol can be used across the country by its contesting candidates.
There are also other advantages to the recognised parties like subsidised land for party offices, free air time on Doordarshan & All India Radio, supply of electoral roll copies free of cost during elections etc.
Source: factly.in
