General Knowledge on Indian Politics
List of National Parties in India
List of State Parties in all over India
Number of MP constituencies in India- State wise
Size of Electorate - State wise
Election of President of India
Election of Prime Minister of India
Everything in Government of India
LIST OF PARTICIPATING POLITICAL PARTIES
PARTYTYPE ABBREVIATION PARTY
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party 1 .
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party 2 .
CPI Communist Party of India 3 .
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist) 4 .
INC Indian National Congress 5 .
JD(S) Janata Dal (Secular) 6 .
JD(U) Janata Dal (United) 7 .
AC Arunachal Congress 8 .
ADMK All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 9 .
AGP Asom Gana Parishad 10 .
AITC All India Trinamool Congress 11 .
BJD Biju Janata Dal 12 .
DMK Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 13 .
FBL All India Forward Bloc 14 .
FPM Federal Party of Manipur 15 .
HPDP Hill State People's Democratic Party 16 .
HVC Himachal Vikas Congress 17 .
HVP Haryana Vikas Party 18 .
INLD Indian National Lok Dal 19 .
JKN Jammu & Kashmir National Conference 20 .
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha 21 .
JP Janata Party 22 .
KEC Kerala Congress 23 .
KEC(M) Kerala Congress (M) 24 .
LS Lok Shakti 25 .
MDMK Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam 26 .
MPP Manipur People's Party 27 .
MSCP Manipur State Congress Party 28 .
MUL Muslim League Kerala State Committee 29 .
NCP Nationalist Congress Party 30 .
NTRTDP(LP) NTR Telugu Desam Party (Lakshmi Parvathi) 31 .
PDM People's Democratic Movement 32 .
PMK Pattali Makkal Katchi 33 .
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal 34 .
RPI Republican Party of India 35 .
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party 36 .
SAD Shiromani Akali Dal 37 .
SDF Sikkim Democratic Front 38 .
SHS Shivsena 39 .
SJP(R) Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) 40 .
SP Samajwadi Party 41 .
SSP Sikkim Sangram Parishad 42 .
TDP Telugu Desam 43 .
TMC(M) Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) 44 .
UDP United Democratic Party 45 .
UGDP United Goans Democratic Party 46 .
UMFA United Minorities Front, Assam 47 .
REGISTERED(Unrecognised ) PARTIES
ABBP Akhil Bhartiya Berozgaar Party 48 .
ABHM Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha 49 .
ABHS Akhil Bharatiya Sena 50 .
ABJS Akhil Bharatiya Jan Sangh 51 .
ABJVP Akhil Bhartiya Janata Vikas Party 52 .
ABLTC Akhil Bhartiya Lok Tantrik Congress 53 .
ABLTP Akhil Bharatiya Loktantra Party 54 .
ABMAD Akhil Bharatiya Manav Adhikar Dal 55 .
ABMSD Akhil Bartiya Manav Seva Dal 56 .
ABP Ambedkarbadi Party 57 .
ABSR Akhil Bharatiya Shivsena Rashtrawadi 58 .
AD Apna Dal 59 .
AIGC All India Gareeb Congress 60 .
AIMF All India Minorities Front 61 .
AIMIM All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen 62 .
AIMLF All India Muslim Forum 63 .
AIRKC All India Rajiv Krantikari Congress 64 .
AJBP Ajeya Bharat Party 65 .
AJKPPF All J & K Peoples Patriotic Front 66 .
AMB Amra Bangalee 67 .
AP Awami Party 68 .
ASP Ambedkar Samaj Party 69 .
ATDP Anna Telugu Desam Party 70 .
BBM Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangha 71 .
BBMKD Bharatiya Berozgar Mazdoor Kisan Dal 72 .
BD Bharat Dal 73 .
BEP(R) Bahujan Ekta Party (R) 74 .
BHJC Bharatiya Jan Congress 75 .
BHJVP Bharatiya Jan Vikas Party 76 .
BJC(R) Bhartiya Jana Congress (Rashtriya) 77 .
BKD Bahujan Kranti Dal 78 .
BKD(J) Bahujan Kranti Dal (Jai) 79 .
BLKD Bharatiya Lok Kalyan Dal 80 .
BMC Bharatha Makkal Congress 81 .
BMF Bharatiya Momin Front 82 .
BMP(AI) Bharatiya Muhabbat Party (All India) 83 .
BMSM Bharatiya Minorities Suraksha Mahasangh 84 .
BND Bharatiya Naujawan Dal 85 .
BNJS Bharat Nav Jyoti Sangh 86 .
BOP Bira Oriya Party 87 .
BPM Bharatiya Parivartan Morcha 88 .
BPSP Bihar People's Party 89 .
BRPP Bharatiya Republican Paksha 90 .
BSD Bharatiya Samaj Dal 91 .
BSP(A) Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar) 92 .
CMK Christian Mannetra Kazhagam 93 .
CMM Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha 94 .
CPI(ML)(L) Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lenninist) (Liberation) 95 .
CSP Chhattisgarhi Samaj Party 96 .
CVP Champaran Vikas Party 97 .
DBP Desh Bhakt Party 98 .
DBSM Democratic Bahujan Samaj Morcha 99 .
DTMK Dhiravida Thelgar Munnetra Kalagam 100 .
EU Ephraim Union 101 .
GGP Gondvana Gantantra Party 102 .
GNC Garo National Council 103 .
GRC Gandhiwadi Rashtriya Congress 104 .
GSP Gareebjan Samaj Party 105 .
GVP Goa Vikas Party 106 .
GYVP Gujarat Yuva Vikas Party 107 .
HDVP Hind Vikas Party 108 .
INGP Indian National Green Party 109 .
IUML Indian Union Muslim League 110 .
JKAL Jammu And Kashmir Awami League 111 .
JKNPP J & K National Panthers Party 112 .
JKP Jharkhand Party 113 .
JKP(N) Jharkhand Party (Naren) 114 .
JMM(U) Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Ulgulan) 115 .
JSAP Jan Satta Party 116 .
KCVP Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha 117 .
KRD Kranti Dal 118 .
KVSB Kamjor Varg Sangh,Bihar 119 .
LJSPI Labour And Job Seeker's Party of India 120 .
LSWP Loktantrik Samajwadi Party 121 .
MADMK M.G.R.Anna D.M.Kazhagam 122 .
MBT Majlis Bachao Tahreek 123 .
MCO Marxist Co-Ordination 124 .
MCPI(S) Marxist Communist Party of India (S.S.Srivastava) 125 .
MDF Maraland Democratic Front 126 .
MKSD Manav Kalyan Sangh Dal 127 .
MPKP Maharashtra Pradesh Krantikari Party 128 .
MRC Maharashtra Rashtravadi Congress 129 .
NCY National Congress of Youth 130 .
NLP National Loktantrik Party 131 .
NMP National Minorities Party 132 .
NOC National Organisation Congress 133 .
PDF People's Democratic Front 134 .
PMSP Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party 135 .
PPOI Pyramid Party of India 136 .
PSJP Parivartan Samaj Party 137 .
PSP Pragatisheel Party 138 .
PT Puthiya Tamilagam 139 .
PWPI Peasants And Workers Party of India 140 .
RAM Rashtriya Aikta Manch 141 .
RCPI(R) Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Rasik Bhatt) 142 .
RDNBP Rashtriya Dharmanirpeksha Nava Bharat Party 143 .
RJVP Rajasthan Vikas Party 144 .
RLD Rashtriya Lok Dal 145 .
RMEP Rashtriya Mazdoor Ekta Party 146 .
RPI(A) Republican Party of India(A) 147 .
RSD Rashtriya Sawarn Dal 148 .
RUD Rashtriya Unnatisheel Dal 149 .
SAD(M) Shiromani Akali Dal (Simranjit Singh Mann) 150 .
SBP Sadbhavana Party 151 .
SHSAD Sarb Hind Shiromani Akali Dal 152 .
SHSP Shoshit Samaj Party 153 .
SPI Secular Party of India 154 .
SPSP Sirpanch Samaj Party 155 .
SRP Socialist Republican Party 156 .
SSD Shoshit Samaj Dal 157 .
SSJP Sanatan Samaj Party 158 .
SVSP Savarn Samaj Party 159 .
TDK Tamil Desiyak Katchi 160 .
THMM Tharasu Makkal Mandram 161 .
THPI The Humanist Party of India 162 .
TNPWP Tamil Nadu Peasants & Workers Party 163 .
TRC Tamizhaga Rajiv Congress 164 .
UBNLF United Bodo Nationalist Liberation Front 165 .
UCP United Citizens Party 166 .
UKKD Uttarakhand Kranti Dal 167 .
URMCA United Reservation Movement Council of Assam 168 .
UTNLF United Tribal Nationalists Liberation Front 169 .
NUMBER AND TYPES OF PARLIAMENT CONSTITUENCIES
SIZE OF ELECTORATE as of 2000 - STATE WISE
source-Election Commission of India
Rajya Sabha is the Upper House of Parliament. It has not more than 250 members. Members of the Rajya Sabha are not elected
by the people directly but indirectly by the Legislative Assemblies of the various States of the country. Every State is allotted a certain number of members. No member of Rajya Sabha can be under 30 years of age.
12 of the Rajya Sabha members are nominated by the President from persons who have earned distinction in the fields of literature,
art, science and social service.
Rajya Sabha is a permanent body. It is not subject to dissolution but one-third of its members retire every two years. Rajya Sabha
was duly constituted for the first time on April 3,1952 and it held its first sitting on May 13, that year.
There are at present 245 members in Rajya Sabha, distributed among different States and Union Territories as follows:
Andhra Pradesh 18 Assam 07 Arunachal Pradesh 01 Bihar 22 Goa 01 Gujarat 11 Haryana 05 Himachal Pradesh 03 Jammu & Kashmir 04 Karnataka 12 Kerala 09 Madhya Pradesh 16 Maharashtra 19 Manipur 01 Meghalaya 01 Mizoram 01 Nagaland 01 Orissa 10 Punjab 07 Rajasthan 10 Sikkim 01 Tamil Nadu 18 Tripura 01 Uttar Pradesh 34 West Bengal 16 Delhi 03 Pondicherry 01 Nominated by President 12
Election
of The Indian President
The President of India is the executive Head of State and Supreme Commander of Armed Forces. The election of the President is a complex affair and is done by an Electoral College as per the provisions laid down in the Constitution. The President is elected indirectly by the members of an Electoral College, consisting of:
i.Elected members of both houses of Parliament; and
ii.Elected members of Legislative Assemblies of states(including National Capital Territory of Delhi and the Union Territory of Pondicherry).
Nominated members of either house of Parliament and State Assemblies are not eligible to be included in the Electoral College.
Total electors
The total members in the Electoral College in 1997 is 4848.
The break-up is as follows:
a.Rajya Sabha 233
b.Lok Sabha 543
c.State Assemblies 4072
The constitution stipulates uniformity, as far as practicable, in the scale of representation of different states. For securing such uniformity among the states as well as a parity between the states as a whole and the Union, a formula is given for determination of the value of vote which each elected MP or MLA is entitled to cast.
Formula
Value of votes
Each MLA's vote is calculated on the basis:
State Population / 1000 * No. of state MLAs = Value of one MLA's vote.
Each MP's vote is calculated on the basis:
Total vote of all MLAs / Total members of Parliament
(Lok Sabha + Rajya Sabha) = Value of one MP's vote
The election is held under a system of proportional representation by means of a single tranferable vote, conducted by a secret ballot.
NAME
FROM
PRESIDENTS
Dr. Rajendra Prasad 26 January 1950
TO
13 May 1962
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 13May 1962
TO
13 May 1967Dr. Zakir Husain 13 May 1967
TO
3 May 1969Shri Varahagiri Venkatagiri 3 May 1969&24 Aug 1969
TO
20 July 1969&24 Aug 1974Dr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed 24 August 1974
TO
11 Feb 1977Dr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 25 July 1977
TO
25 July 1982Giani Zail Singh 25 July 1982
TO
25 July 1987Shri R Venkataraman 25 July 1987
TO
25 July 1992Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma 25 July 1992
TO
25 July 1997Dr.K.R.Naryana 25 July 1997
TO
Till Date
Election of The PRIME MINISTER
The Prime Minister is the leader of the ruling party in the parliament.He enjoys the majority of the house.He can stay as long as he has the majority in the house.The Prime minister is elected by the party which have majority in the house.Prime Minister appoints the Councal of Ministers.He had to informe the day to day proceding of the house to the President.President act on the advice of Prime minister.It shall be the duty of the Prime Minister-
(a) to communicate to the President all decisions of the Council of Ministers relating to the administration of the affairs of the Union and proposals for legislation;
(b) to furnish such information relating to the administration of the affairs of the Union and proposals for legislation as the President may call for; and
(c) if the President so requires, to submit for the consideration of the Council of Ministers any matter on which a decision has been taen by a Minister but which has not been considered by the Council.
Prime Ministers Of India
Duration In Office
NAME
FROM
TO
Jawahar Lal Nehru 15 August 1947 27 May 1964 Gulzari Lal Nanda (caretaker PM) 27 May 1964 9 June 1964 Lal Bahadur Shastri 9 June 1964 11 Jan 1966 Gulzari Lal Nanda (caretaker PM) 11 Jan 1966 24 Jan 1966 Indira Gandhi 24 Jan 1966 24 March 1977 Morarji Desai 24 March 1977 27 July 1979 Charan Singh 28 July 1979 14 Jan 1980 Indira Gandhi 14 Jan 1980 31 Oct 1984 Rajiv Gandhi 31 Oct 1984 1 Dec 1989 V.P. Singh 2 Dec 1989 10 Nov 1990 Chandrashekhar 10 Nov 1990 21 June 1991 P.V. Narasimha Rao 21 June 1991 16 May 1996 Atal Behari Vajpayee 16 May 1996 1 June 1996 H.D. Deve Gowda 1 June 1996 12 April 1997 Inder Kumar Gujral 21 April 1997 18 March 1998 Atal Behari Vajpayee 19 March 1998 Till Date Links to Political Parties in India:
- Indian National Congress Party
- Indian Congress
- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - official site
- TDP
- Chandra Babu Naidu
- AIADMK
- Samajwadi Party (SP)
- Shivsena
- Tamil Maanila Congress
- Ajeya Bharat Party
- Bhartiya Democratic Party (BDP)
- Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI(M)
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam - website of political party from Tamil Nadu
- Humanist Party of India
- Sonia Gandhi's Own Website
- Victory of India Party
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