The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right to right-wing conservative Indian national Parliamentary group with great influence in the country of India. It is the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance founded by the former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of India L. K. Advani in 1998. The NDA faced the general elections of 1998 and 1999 by having Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the prime ministerial candidate, won both elections, and formed the government. In 2004 under the leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and 2009, under the leadership of L. K. Advani as the prime ministerial candidate and lost both elections. In 2014 and 2019, the alliance had Narendra Modi as its prime ministerial candidate, won the elections with a great majority, and formed the government.

The prime ministerial candidate for the 2024 Indian general election of the alliance is Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi.

List of members

# Political party Flag Election symbol Leader Seats Base
Lok Sabha Rajya Sabha
National Party
1 Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP)
Jagat Prakash Nadda
290 / 543
93 / 245
 National party
2 National People's Party
(NPP)
Conrad Sangma
1 / 543
1 / 245
 National party
State Party
3 AJSU Party
(AJSUP)
Sudesh Mahto
1 / 543
0 / 245
 Jharkhand
4 All India N.R. Congress
(AINRC)
N. Rangasamy
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Puducherry
5 Apna Dal (Soneylal)
(AD(S))
Anupriya Patel
2 / 543
0 / 245
 Uttar Pradesh
6 Asom Gana Parishad
(AGP)
Atul Bora
0 / 543
1 / 245
 Assam
7 Hill State People's Democratic Party
(HSPDP)
K. P. Pangniang
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Meghalaya
8 Indigenous People's Front of Tripura
(IPFT)
Prem Kumar Reang
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Tripura
9 Janata Dal (Secular)
(JD(S))[1] 		Janata Dal Election Symbol
H. D. Dewe Gowda
1 / 543
1 / 245
 Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala
10 Janata Dal (United)
(JD(U))
Nitish Kumar
16 / 543
5 / 245
 Bihar
11 Jannayak Janta Party
(JJP)
Dushyant Chautala
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Haryana
12 Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas)
(LJP(RV))
Chirag Paswan
1 / 543
0 / 245
 Bihar and Nagaland
13 Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party
(MGP)
Sudin Dhavalikar
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Goa
14 Naga People's Front
(NPF)
Küzholuzo Nienü
1 / 543
0 / 245
 Manipur and Nagaland
15 Nationalist Congress Party
(NCP)
Ajit Pawar
1 / 543
1 / 245
 Maharashtra and Nagaland
16 Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party
(NDPP)
Neiphiu Rio
1 / 543
0 / 245
 Nagaland
17 Shiv Sena
(SS)
Eknath Shinde
13 / 543
0 / 245
 Maharashtra
18 Sikkim Krantikari Morcha
(SKM)
Prem Singh Tamang
1 / 543
0 / 245
 Sikkim
19 United Democratic Party
(UDP)
Metbah Lyngdoh
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Meghalaya
20 United People's Party Liberal
(UPPL)
Pramod Boro
0 / 543
1 / 245
 Assam
RUPP
21 Bharath Dharma Jana Sena
(BDJS)
Thushar Vellappally
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Kerala
22 Gorkha National Liberation Front
(GNLF)
Mann Ghising
0 / 543
0 / 245
 West Bengal
23 Haryana Lokhit Party
(HLP)
Gopal Kanda
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Haryana
24 Hindustani Awam Morcha
(HAM)
Jitan Ram Manjhi
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Bihar
25 Jan Surajya Shakti
(JSS)
Vinay Kore
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Maharashtra
26 Jana Sena Party
(JSP)
Pawan Kalyan
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Andhra Pradesh
27 Kerala Kamaraj Congress
(KKC)
Vishnupuram Chandrasekharan
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Kerala
28 NISHAD Party
(NP)
Sanjay Nishad
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Uttar Pradesh
29 Prahar Janshakti Party
(PJP)
Bachchu Kadu
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Maharashtra
30 Puthiya Needhi Katchi
(PNK)
A. C. Shanmugam
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Tamil Nadu
31 Puthiya Tamilagam
(PT)
K. Krishnasamy
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Tamil Nadu
32 Rashtriya Lok Dal
(RLD) 		Chowdhry Jayant Singh
0 / 543
1 / 245
 Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan
33 Rashtriya Lok Morcha
(RLM) 		Upendra Kushwaha
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Bihar
34 Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party
(RLJP)
Pashupati Kumar Paras
5 / 543
0 / 245
 Bihar
35 Rashtriya Samaj Paksha
(RSP)
Mahadev Jankar
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Maharashtra
36 Republican Party of India (Athawale)
(RPI(A))
Ramdas Athawale
0 / 543
1 / 245
 Maharashtra
37 Shiromani Akali Dal (Sanyukt)
(SAD(S))
Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Punjab
38 Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
(SBSP)
Om Prakash Rajbhar
0 / 543
0 / 245
 Uttar Pradesh
TOTAL
339 / 543
116 / 245
 India

Past members

Past NDA members[a]
Party Withdrawal year
AIADMK 2023
KPA 2023
PDF[b] 2023
GFP 2021
DMDK 2021
GJM 2020
RLP 2020
SAD 2020
TDP 2018
JKPDP 2018
HJC(BL)[2] 2014
MDMK[3] 2014
JP[4][5][c] 2013
JMM[6] 2012
RLD[6] 2012
LUTF[7][8][c] 2010
UKD[9] 2010
INLD[6] 2009
IFDP[6][d] 2004
AITC 2004
LS[10][11] 2003
SM(UM) 2003
DMK[6] 2002
JKNC[6] 2002
HVP[12] 1999

Notes

  1. ^ The list includes all the past members of the NDA, listed alphabetically.
  2. ^ Merged with NPP.
  3. ^ a b Merged with the BJP.
  4. ^ Merged with the Kerala Congress.

References

  1. ^ "As Opposition Teams Up For Big 2024 Fight, BJP Seals A Pact In South". NDTV.com. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Haryana Janhit Congress snaps ties with BJP". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. 28 August 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  3. ^ Karthick S (8 December 2014). "Vaiko's MDMK snaps ties with NDA, hits out at Modi govt". Times of India. Chennai. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  4. ^ "NDA finds a new ally in Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy". New Delhi: Mail Today. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Janata Party merged with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)". jagranjosh.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  6. ^ a b c d e f "NDA camp left almost empty as JD-U leaves". Business Standard. New Delhi. 16 June 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  7. ^ "NDA gets one more ally". Business Standard. New Delhi. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  8. ^ "Amid strife, Ladakh party merges with BJP". Rediff.com. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  9. ^ "UKD withdraws support from state BJP govt". The Tribune. Dehradun. 2 December 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  10. ^ Ramakrishnan, Venkitesh (August 1999). "A 'united' Dal and a divided NDA". Frontline. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  11. ^ "SJ(D) merges with JD(U)". The Hindu. Thrissur. 29 December 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2015. The JD(U) was formed on October 30, 2003, with the merger of the Sharad Yadav faction of the Janata Dal, Lokshakti Party and the Samata Party.
  12. ^ "BJP withdraws support to Bansi Lal govt in Haryana". Rediff.com. 22 June 1999. Retrieved 5 September 2015.

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