4. ELECTION
Political parties are organisations formed on the basis
of an ideology which works, continuosly for attaining
political power.
5. FUNCTIONS OF POLITICAL PARTIES
Connect the government and the people.
Form public opinion.
Create political awareness.
Contest elections and the party attains majority of
seate form the government.
The parties which do not get majority of seats,
functions as responsible opposition.
Correct the wrong policies of the government.
Put forward various policies and programmes.
6. POLITICAL PARTIES IN INDIA
NATIONAL PARTIES
Indian National Congress
Bharatiya Janata Party
Communist Party Of India
Bahujan Samaj Party
Nationalist Congress Party
Rakshtriya Janatadal
7. STATE PARTIES
Janatadal
Kerala Congress
KeralaCongress(M)
Muslim League
Kerala State Committee
8. NATIONAL PARTIES
GEnerally those parties which function across the
nation and have influence in more than one state are
called national parties.
10. REGISTERED PARTIES
Political parties are funtioning in our country which
are not able to fulfill the criteria of National or State
Parties.
11. REGISTERED PARTIES OF
KERALA
All Kerala MGR Dravida Munnetta Party
Revolutionary Socialist Party
Peoples Democratic Party
Socialist Republican Party
United India Peoples Party.