List of national parties

National parties
S No.	Name	Year	Current leader	Symbol
1	Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)	1984	Mayawati	Elephant
2	Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)	1980	Rajnath Singh	Lotus
3	Communist Party of India (CPI)	1925[a]	Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy	Ears of Corn and Sickle
4	Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M)	1964	Prakash Karat	Hammer, Sickle and Star
5	Indian National Congress (INC)	1885	Sonia Gandhi	Hand
6	Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)	1999	Sharad Pawar	Clock