{"id":9682,"date":"2024-07-02T18:32:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:55:16","slug":"regionalism-the-history-of-regional-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/volume2-issue5\/regionalism-the-history-of-regional-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Regionalism: The History of Regional Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Author: Ajija Sultana<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DOI Link<\/strong> : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/020500013\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/020500013<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Abstract : <\/strong>India has a multi-party system with predominance of small regional parties. Political parties that wish to contest local, state or national elections are required to be registered by the Election Commission of India (EC). In order to gain recognition in a state, the party must have had political activity for at least five continuous years, and send at least 4% of the state\u2019s quota to the Lok Saba (India\u2019s Lower house), or 3.33% of members to that state\u2019s assembly. These conditions are deemed to have failed if a member of the LokSabha or the Legislative Assembly of the State becomes a member of that political party after his election. If a party is recognized in four or more states, it is declared as a \u201cNational party\u201d by the EC. Otherwise, it is known as a State Party. All parties contesting elections have to choose a symbol from a list of available symbols offered by the Election Commission. All 28 states along with the union territory of Pondicherry and the National Capital Territory of Delhi usually have an elected government unless President\u2019s rule is imposed under certain conditions. A party is easily identified as a regional party if it propagates the ideology of regionalism or thrives on invocation of regional pride. Regional parties are parties whose main holds are in one certain state and mostly they participate in the elections only within that state. Most of these regional parties have agenda fitting certain culture dominant within that state. Some of these regional parties also participate in neighboring states, which have constituencies with culture similar to the first state. Different state parties were established at different periods because of different reasons. Some even have origins prior to India\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keywords: <\/strong>Commission, Dominant, LokSabha, Legislative Assembly, Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Page No : 104-107<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ast-global-color-6-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Vol_2-Issue_5-104-107.pdf\">download journal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Ajija Sultana DOI Link : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/020500013 Abstract : India has a multi-party system with predominance of small regional parties. Political parties that wish to contest local, state or national elections are required to be registered by the Election Commission of India (EC). In order to gain recognition in a state, the party must have &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/volume2-issue5\/regionalism-the-history-of-regional-party\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regionalism: The History of Regional Party<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_joinchat":[]},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/author\/asraful-alibiswas\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/bijmrd.com\/index.php\/category\/volume2-issue5\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Volume2 Issue5<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Author: Ajija Sultana DOI Link : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.70798\/Bijmrd\/020500013 Abstract : India has a multi-party system with predominance of small regional parties. 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