Talk:List of political parties in India

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[edit] Naming

I dread to think how many duplicates we have here. I will attempt to work on it - unless any Indian wikipedians can sort it. Secretlondon 14:58, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)

We need to work out which are more commonly known in English by their Indian names, and which should be translated (re: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)). Secretlondon 15:14, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)

Google Directory might be a good yardstick. See [1] which uses Bharatiya Janata Party in English Google directory. Anjouli 15:21, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I have put all the party names that I know are definitely known by their local languages in front. KRS 15:34, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

[edit] Regional parties

I would dispute the assertion that many regional parties are "wannabes". Many of them are very influential within their own regions, and are capable of defeating even the national parties in a head-on contest. In fact, national parties are actually building up alliances with strong regional parties in order to swing votes in their favour in the upcoming General Elections. It is however true that regional parties have little, if any, influence outside their states, and thus they fully deserve their epithet 'regional'. Gokul 18:12, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Is Kamala Suraiya's national Lok Seva Party listed?

WOW. Thnks to Wikipedia, we know how many parties there are in India. I was expecting this page to be bigger than that on India.

Maybe it's me, but I couldn't find Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh. It comes up in Google searches and seems to be an active political group. I am no expert on Inia, so apologies in adavance if this causes confusion. --Peterk2 10:30, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coalitions

The coalition section says:

"Since 1990, the Indian electorate has consistently thrown fragmented verdicts both at the state and national levels."

However coalition governments were did exist earlier, althought not as much as they have been since the 1989 General Election. There was the Janata Government at the centre from 1977-1979, and various coalitions in UP and Bihar that are not mentioned. I don't know of any online source about these, this might take some digging in a library. Gautambas 13:28, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PRISM doesn't point to a political party

The name PRISM inserted as a political party points to something that has nothing to do with a political party. Thanks. Sunil 21:47, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


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