149 New political parties registered between Jan & March
India now has 2,293 political parties
New Delhi, Mar 17: "Bharosa Party", "Sabsi Badi Party", and "Rashtriya Saaf Niti Party" are some of the 2,300- odd political parties that India has on the eve of the 2019 general elections.
The Election Commission of India's latest data on political parties, registered till March 9, a day before the Lok Sabha elections were announced, reveal that the country is having a total of 2,293 political parties.
They include seven "recognised national" and 59 "recognised state" parties.
In fact, 149 political parties were registered with the poll panel between February and March on the eve of the announcement of the poll schedule.
Till February this year, the country had 2,143 political parties registered with the Commission, with 58 of them getting registered ahead of the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Mizoram and Chhattisgarh during November-December last year.
Some of the recently registered 149 parties include Bahujan Azad Party from Sitamarhi in Bihar, Samoohik Ekta Party from Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Rashtriya Saaf Niti Party from Jaipur, Rajasthan, Sabsi Badi Party, Delhi, Bharosa Party from Telangana and New Generation People's Party from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
These registered but unrecognised political parties do not have the privilege of contesting elections on a fixed symbol of their own.
They have to choose from a list of 'free symbols' issued by the poll panel. According to the latest EC circular, there are 84 such free symbols available currently.
To become a recognised political party either at the state or national level, a party has to secure certain minimum percentage of polled valid votes or certain number of seats in the state legislative assembly or the Lok Sabha during the last election.
Fearing misuse of the provisions for financial contributions to political parties, the Election Commission had in 2016 asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes to look into the finances of 255 registered but unrecognised political parties it had "unlisted" that year for not contesting polls in the last one decade between 2005 and 2015.
There have been fears that most of such parties are used to 'round trip' the black money into white.
The EC had found that some of the parties were "no longer in existence or functioning".
While the poll watchdog has the mandate to register a political party, the electoral laws denies it the power to deregister any party.
With its demand to get power to deregister a party being pending with the Law Ministry, the Commission had used its powers under Article 324 of the Constitution to "unlist" parties for being dormant and not contesting elections for a long time.
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List of Muslim candidates on UPSC Civil Services Merit List 2023
New Delhi: More than 50 Muslim candidates have secured positions in the UPSC Civil Services Merit List 2023, which was released today. Among them, five candidates—Ruhani, Nausheen, Wardah Khan, Zufishan Haque, and Fabi Rasheed—have achieved ranks within the top 100 positions.
A total of 1,016 candidates have successfully cleared the examination and have been recommended for various central government services, as announced by the UPSC.
The Civil Services Examination, conducted annually in three stages—preliminary, main, and interview—by the UPSC, aims to select officers for prestigious services such as the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Indian Foreign Service (IFS), and Indian Police Service (IPS), among others.
Below is the list of Muslim candidates who have made it to the Civil Services Merit List 2023:
5: RUHANI
9: NAUSHEEN
18: WARDAH KHAN
34: ZUFISHAN HAQUE
71: FABI RASHEED
111: ARFA USMANI
157: SYED ADEEL MOHSIN
165: KHAN SAIMA SERAJ AHMED
188: SAYEM RAZA
241: FARHEEN ZAHID
253: AREEBA SAGHIR
278: EHTEDA MUFASSIR
311: NAZISH UMAR ANSARI
312: SYED MUSTAFA HASHMI
317: FATHIMA SHIMNA PARAVATH
323: SHAHIDA BEGUM S
332: HAMID NAVED
339: AREEBA NOMAAN
345: MOHAMMAD HARIS MIR
369: MOHAMMAD FARHAN SEH
374: MD TABISH HASAN
388: GHULAM MAYA DIN
418: ALIFA KHAN
447: DANISH RABBANI KHAN
469: ZOHRA BANU
481: MD ASIM MUJTEBA
507: ABDUL FASAL P V
512: MOHAMMAD AFTAB ALAM
516: SEERAT BAJI
574: AFZAL ALI
659: MOHAMED RISWIN I
670: NAZIA PARWEEN
677: SYED TALIB AHMED
730: SHOIAB
744: ABDULLAH ZAHID
745: THASLIM M
758: SOPHIA SIDDIQUI
762: MD SHAHANSHAH SIDDIQUE
770: MOHD ASHFAQ
819: ATIF WAQUAR EKRAM ANSARI
822: MD BURHAN ZAMAN
825: GHANCHI GAZALA MOHMADHANIF
826: SYED SADIQUE
839: NAJMA A SALAM
840: RASHIDALI A
845: J ASHIQ HUSSAIN
851: INBA S
852: AHRAS A N
866: HAMSA SHREE N A
1012: MD WARSHID KHAN
1013: AZMAL HUSSAIN
