Question

Which of the following is not a national political party?
A) Nationalist Congress Party
B) Samajwadi Party
C) Communist Party
D) Bahujan Samaj Party

Answer 1

Hint:
All the other parties except the Samajwadi Party are National political parties as they are registered parties and have got recognition from the Election Commission of India.

Complete answer:
The Samajwadi Party regional political party in India based in UP state. The SP was formed in 1992 in Lucknow, and it professes a socialist ideology Influenced by the veteran socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–67), the party aimed at “creating a socialist society, which works on the principle of equality,” and sought to mobilize the state’s minority Muslim population and members of lower castes into a political force. Mulayam singh yadav was the party’s founder and longtime president. The SP grew to become one of the largest regional parties in India—forming governments in Uttar Pradesh in 1993, 2003, and 2012—and since its inception it maintained a small but influential number of seats in the Lok sabha.

Note:
A registered party is recognised as a National Party only if it fulfils any one of the following three conditions:

1. The party wins 2 percent of the seats in the Lok Sabha (as of 2014, 11 seats) from at least 3 different States.
2. At a General Election to Lok Sabha or Legislative Assembly, the party polls 6% of votes in four States and in addition it wins 4 Lok Sabha seats from any state or states.
3. A party gets recognition as a State Party in four or more States.

Parties recognised as such are given unique symbols which only the official candidates of that party can use. The parties that get these privileges and some other special facilities are recognised by the Election Commission of India for this purpose. That is why these parties are called as recognised parties