7+32+(1000+) Parties for 1 billion+ people!!!!

Yeah...We have only 7 national parties in this 2009 elections along with . Their details alphabetically are as follows:

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Symbol: Elephant
Party chief: Mayawati Kumari


Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Symbol: Lotus
Party chief: Rajnath Singh
PM candidate: L K Advani

Communist Party of India (CPI)
Symbol: Ears of Corn and Sickle

Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)
Symbol: Hammer, Sickle and Star
Key leaders: Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, Brinda Karat

Indian National Congress (Congress)
Symbol: Hand
Key leaders: Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
Symbol: Clock
Key leaders: Sharad Pawar, P.A. Sangma

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)
Symbol: Hurricane Lamp
Party chief: Lalu Prasad


Along with 7 national parties we have 32 regional parties and 1000+ registered but unrecognized parties