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New status for NPP: what conditions did it meet?
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- National People’s Party, has been recognized as a “national party”.
- The NPP is the eighth party to get that recognition — after Congress, BJP, BSP, NCP, CPI, CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress — and the first from the Northeast.
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- The Election Commission lists political parties as “national party”, “state party” or “registered (unrecognized) party”.
- The conditions for being listed as a national or a state party are specified under the Election Symbols (Reservation and Allotment) Order, 1968.
- A party has to satisfy any one of a number of these conditions.
- Conditions specified under Paragraph 6B of the 1968 Order are:(1) 6% vote share in the last Assembly polls in each of any four states, as well as four seats in the last Lok Sabha polls. Or(2) 2% of all Lok Sabha seats in the last such election, with MPs elected from at least three states. Or(3) Recognition as a state party in at least four states.
- The NPP has satisfied the last of these conditions. It is recognized as a state party in four states — Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, besides Meghalaya.
- For recognition as a state party, any one of five conditions need to be satisfied:(1) 2 seats plus a 6% vote share in the last Assembly election in that state.(2) 1 seat plus a 6% vote share in the last Lok Sabha election from that state.(3) 3% of the total Assembly seats or 3 seats, whichever is more.(4) 1 of every 25 Lok Sabha seats (or an equivalent fraction) from a state.(5) 8% state-wide vote share in either the last Lok Sabha or the last Assembly polls.
Source
Indian express.