Party Symbols

India has a democratic form of Government and all states have an elected Government. The Lok Sabha Elections sees the contest of national level political parties and the state level parties as well. A totla of 6 political parties are considerd as National level parties while several others make the state level parties.

Parliamentary Elections of 2009 will see the following parties contesting for seats:

Symbol	Political party Name	Acronym
	Bharatiya Janata Party	BJP
	Bahujan Samaj Party	BSP
	Indian National Congress	INC
	Communist Party of India	CPI
	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	CPI-M
	Nationalist Congress Party	NCP
	Rashtriya Janata Dal	RJD