{"id":237421,"date":"2023-04-11T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=237421"},"modified":"2023-04-11T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:30:13","slug":"aap-now-national-party-ncp-trinamool-lose-tag-how-is-a-national-party-in-india-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aap-now-national-party-ncp-trinamool-lose-tag-how-is-a-national-party-in-india-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"AAP now national party; NCP, Trinamool lose tag: How is a \u2018national party\u2019 in India defined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cAAP now national party; NCP, Trinamool lose tag: How is a \u2018national party\u2019 in India defined<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Indian Express <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>11<sup>th<\/sup> April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>About <\/strong>national and state parties<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Election Commission has recognised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a national party, while revoking that status of the All-India Trinamool Congress, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI).<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a national party?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A party with a national<strong> presence is known as a national party<\/strong>. These are usually bigger parties like Congress and BJP. However, <strong>some smaller parties are also recognized as national parties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the current National Parties?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People\u2019s Party (NPP) and the AAP are the national parties now.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How is a party recognized as a national party?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/after-gujarat-results-aap-set-for-upgrade-what-it-takes-to-become-a-national-party-in-india\/\"><strong>Click Here to Read<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>How is a party recognized as a state party?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/jjp-gets-state-party-status\/\"><strong>Click here to Read<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A party needs to have at least one MP for every 25 members, or any fraction allotted to the state in the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How did AAP fulfil the criteria of being a national party?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>AAP has very large vote shares in Delhi and Punjab. In the Goa Assembly elections last year, it received 6.77% of the vote. This way it already fulfilled the criteria for recognition as a <strong>state party in three states. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It then required 6% of the vote in the Assembly elections in either Himachal or Gujarat last year to be recognized in a fourth state.<\/p>\n<p>It received almost 13% vote in Gujarat which was more than double the required to be recognized as a state party there. <strong>That made it to four states<\/strong> and qualified for the national party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cAAP now national party; NCP, Trinamool lose tag: How is a \u2018national party\u2019 in India defined\u201d published in The Indian Express on\u00a011th April 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: About national and state parties News: The Election Commission has recognised the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) as a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aap-now-national-party-ncp-trinamool-lose-tag-how-is-a-national-party-in-india-defined\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AAP now national party; NCP, Trinamool lose tag: How is a \u2018national party\u2019 in India defined<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-237421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704822284},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}