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12 Mar 2022 Eligibility for ‘National Political Party’

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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has emerged as the only major winner other than BJP in the recently held elections. As per the trends, the party is set to form the government in Punjab with a lead of 91 seats, and open its account with two seats in Goa, including a vote share of 6%.

Not now.
A party needs to meet one of three set criteria in order to be recognized as a ‘national party’ – and at present the AAP does not meet any of them.

Registration of Political Parties is done under the provisions of Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951.
A political party has to submit an application to the Election Commission of India under the relevant section within 30 days to register its establishment, as per the prescribed guidelines. For this, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 324 of the Constitution of India and Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, the Election Commission of India issues guidelines.

The political party has won 2 percent of the total Lok Sabha seats (11 out of 543 members) in the Lok Sabha elections and these members have been elected from at least three different states.
It is mandatory to secure at least six percent of the valid votes polled in the general elections or assembly elections held in four or more states.
Must be recognized as a ‘State Party’ in four or more states. Apart from this, for this, a minimum of four seats in the Lok Sabha should be won from any state or states.

For a political party to be recognized as a ‘State level political party’, it is necessary to secure a minimum of six percent of the total valid votes polled in the elections to the Lok Sabha or the Legislative Assembly held in the state.
In addition, for this, at least two seats should be won in the Legislative Assembly of the respective state.
For a political party, it should have secured 3 percent of the total seats or 3 seats, whichever is higher, in the elections to the State Legislative Assembly.
One MP from each of the 25 Lok Sabha seats or eight per cent of the total votes polled in the state by a political party during a state assembly election or a Lok Sabha election.

A registered party recognized as a ‘State Level Political Party’, has the privilege of allotting a reserved election symbol for the party to its candidates in the State concerned.
A registered party recognized as a ‘National Political Party’ has the privilege of allotting secure election symbols for the party to its candidates throughout India.
Candidates from recognized national or state level political parties need only one proposer at the time of filing their nomination papers. In addition, they also have the right to get two sets of electoral rolls free of cost at the time of revision of electoral rolls and one set of electoral rolls is provided free of cost to their candidates during the general election.
For these, during the general elections, they are provided telecast facility on All India Radio and Doordarshan.
Travel expenses of star campaigners during general elections for recognized political parties are not added to the expenditure of that candidate or party.