16-12-2017, 04:51 PM
Registration of Political Parties
*A political party shall be treated as a recognised political party in a State, if and only if either the conditions specified in
Clause (A) are, or the condition specified in
Clause (B) is, fulfilled by that party that is to say -
(A) that such party-
*has been engaged in political activity for a continuous period of five years; and has, at the last general election in that State to the House of the People, or, to the Legislative Assembly of the State, returned either (i) at least one member to the Hosue of the People for every twenty-five members of that House from that State;
or
(ii) at least one member to the Legislative +Assembly of the state for every twenty-five members of that Assembly
(B) that the total number of valid votes polled by all the contesting candidates set up by such party at the last general election in the State to the House of the People or to the Legislative Assembly of the State, is not less than six per cent of the total number of valid votes polled at such general election in the State.
*If a political party is treated as a recognised political party in four or more. States, it shall be knwon as a National Party throughout the whole of India, but only so long as that political party continues to fulfill thereafter the conditions for recognition in four or more States on the results of any subsequent general election either to the House of the People or to the Legislative Assembly of any State.
