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As of 8 February 2025, NDA have government in 19 States and 2 Union Territories. INDIA bloc have government in 8 States and 1 union Territories. Other one party ZPM , which is not part of any alliance has government in Mizoram state.
The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister . Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers ...
President of the Republic of India: Droupadi Murmu: 25 July 2022 [1] Vice President of the Republic of India: Jagdeep Dhankhar: 11 August 2022 [2] Prime Minister of the Republic of India: Narendra Modi: 26 May 2014 [3] Chief Justice of the Republic of India: Sanjiv Khanna: 11 November 2024 Speaker of Lok Sabha: Om Birla: 19 June 2019 [4] Chief ...
India has a quasi-federal form of government, called "union" or "central" government, [48] with elected officials at the union, state and local levels. At the national level, the head of government , the prime minister , is appointed by the president of India from the party or coalition that has the majority of seats in the Lok Sabha .
Politics of India works within the framework of the country's Constitution. India is a parliamentary secular democratic republic in which the president of India is the head of state & first citizen of India and the Prime Minister of India is the head of government. It is based on the federal structure of government, although the word is not ...
India has a multi-party system.The Election Commission of India (ECI) grants recognition to national-level and state-level political parties based on objective criteria. A recognised political party enjoys privileges such as a reserved party symbol, [a] free broadcast time on state-run television and radio, consultation in the setting of election dates, and giving input in setting electoral ...
Government dismissed in spite of Sharad Pawar enjoying majority support in the Assembly [14] 20. 18 February 1980 Tamil Nadu: M. G. Ramachandran: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam: Government dismissed in spite of Chief minister M G Ramachandran enjoying majority support in Assembly, due to Farmers Strike for subsidised electricity. 21.
Since 1947, India has had 16 Prime Ministers. [a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first Prime Minister, serving as Prime Minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).