The Election Commission of India (ECI) declared the National People’s Party led by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma as a national party.
About:
With this, NPP becomes the 8th national party in India. Before NPP’s elevation, India had seven national parties. Trinamool Congress, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, became the seventh in September 2016.
This made the NPP the first political party from the north-eastern region to get national party status.
Criteria:
NPP was given the national party status for fulfilling conditions such as polling more than 6% of the total votes in the last general election and being recognised as a State party in at least four States.
The NPP is recognised as a State party in Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya and Nagaland.
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