Political Parties in India

India, one of the world’s largest democracies has seen 200 political parties being formed, since it attained Independence on August 15 1947. Compared to other democracies, India has a large number of political parties and some of them are woven around their leaders. The two main parties in India are the Congress and BJP, which dominate national politics. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister has been a central figure in Indian politics and he is considered to be the architect of modern India. His daughter, Indira Gandhi created history, when she went on to become India’s first woman Prime Minister. While the Indian political scene was dominated by the Congress for long, the last couple of years has seen the resurgence of the BJP under leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi.

National Parties in India

Party Name	Party Symbol	Founder	Founded Date
Aam Aadmi Party	Broom	Arvind Kejriwal and others	2012
Bahujan Samaj Party	Elephant	Kanshi Ram	1984
Bharatiya Janta Party	Lotus	Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lal Krishna Advani	1980
Communist Party Of India	Corn and Sickle		1925
Communist Party Of India (marxist)	Hammer Sickle and Star	List P. Ramamurthi M. Basavapunnaiah E. M. S. Namboodiripad H. S. Surjeet Promode Dasgupta Jyoti Basu H. K. Konar P. Sundarayya B. T. Ranadive A. K. Gopalan	1964
Indian National Congress	Hand	A.O. Hume W.C. Bonnerjee S.N. Banerjee Monomohun Ghose William Wedderburn Dadabhai Naoroji Badruddin Tyabji Pherozeshah Mehta Dinshaw Wacha Mahadev Ranade	1885
Nationalist Congress Party	Alarm Clock	Sharadchandra Pawar	1999

Regional Parties in India

Party Name	Party Symbol	Founder	Founded Date
Akhand Bharti	--		NA
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha	--	Madan Mohan Malaviya	01 January, 1915
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam	Two Leaves	M. G. Ramachandran	17 October, 1972
All India Forward Bloc	Lion	Subhas Chandra Bose	22 June, 1939
All India Majlis-e-ittehadul Muslimoon	--		NA
All India NR Congress	Jug	N. Rangasamy	07 February, 2011
All India Trinamool Congress	Two Flowers with Grass		01 January, 1998
All India United Democratic Front	Lock and Key	Maulana Badruddin Ajmal	02 October, 2005
All Jharkhand Students Union	Banana	Nirmal Mahato	22 June, 1986
Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam	Cooker	T.T.V.Dinakaran	15 March, 2018

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