Question

Name the six ‘National Political Parties’ in India in a chronological order.

Answer 1

Hint:
In politics, a political party is an organised group of people who, in an effort to get them elected and thus enact their agenda, share the same platform or who otherwise have the same political positions and who field candidates for elections. A defining feature of representative democracy is political parties. Such parties have existed since before independence.

Complete step by step solution:
In general, India's party structure has not been a set one, such as a one-party system or a one-party dominant system, a two-party system, or a multi-party system. In India's party system, the characteristics discovered in each of the above party systems can be identified. It is more and less a multi-party structure since national political parties are largely dependent on the support of regional political parties in order to remain in power both in the Centre and in some states. As single parties find it difficult to get majorities by themselves, different political parties join hands to form coalition governments.

Six National Political Parties on the basis of their foundation are:

- Indian National Congress (1885):
- Communist Party of India (1925):
- Communist Party of India-Marxist (1964)
- Bharatiya Janata Party (1980)
- Bahujan Samaj Party (1984)
- National Congress Party (1999)

Additional information:
As in every other democracy, various parts of Indian society and regions are embodied by political parties and their core values play a major role in India's politics. The members of the political parties that have been elected through the elections administer both the executive branch and the legislative branch of the government. The people of India select, through the democratic process, which representative and which political party should run the government.

Note:
1. Unlike the national parties, some regional parties, especially in South India, are strongly aligned with the ideologies of the region, and hence the relationship between the central government and the state government has not always been free of rancour in different states.

2.The disparity between the philosophies of the central and state governing political parties contributes to a severely unequal distribution of resources between states.