Team News Riveting
New Delhi, April 10
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday accorded national party status to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) while withdrew the position from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Communist Party of India (CPI).
The Election Commission of India (ECI) said, “The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) recognised as a National Party as it fulfilled the condition of Para 6B(iii) i.e. recognition as a state party in four states, based on electoral performance in states including Delhi, Goa, Punjab and, most recently in Gujarat.”
Further, the poll panel announced that it was withdrawing the status of three recognised national parties — the AITC (Trinamool), the CPI and the NCP — after “following due process and providing sufficient opportunity of two Parliamentary elections and 21 State Assembly Elections”.
In the order the ECI said, “The national party status of the AITC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) were withdrawn.” The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, CPI(M), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), National People’s Party (NPP) and the AAP are now left as national parties.
The state party status granted to RLD in Uttar Pradesh, BRS in Andhra Pradesh, PDA in Manipur, PMK in Puducherry, RSP in West Bengal and MPC in Mizoram have also been revoked and all of them would remain as Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPP), the Election Commission said.
The Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) in Nagaland, Voice of the People Party in Meghalaya and the Tipra Motha in Tripura granted “recognised state political party” status, the ECI announced.
