NDA - National Democratic Alliance

National Democratic Alliance is an association of many political parties and leads by Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). It is a huge alliance that currently controls the Indian Government and 17 more state governments of India. NDA doesn't have any interference in Government and is completely dependent on the leaders selected by the NDA members. The current chairman of NDA is Amit Shah.

History

The NDA was founded in 1998 to take participation in the general elections. The main reason behind NDA was to form an anti-Indian National Congress Group. It was led by BJP and buildup with many parties like Samta Party, AIADMK, Shiv Sena (who later left the alliance and joined the congress alliance). The first Chairman of NDA was Atal Bihari Bajpai, Lal Krishna Advani, and the former deputy Prime Minister was the chairman from 2004 to 2014 and Amit Shah, who is the chairman from 2014. NDA's leader Narendra Modi took oath as Prime Minister of India in 2014, and in 2019, he again won with 353 seats successfully possessed by NDA with 43% of vote share.

Shiv Sena was the only Hindutava ideology supportive Party. In 1999 with the support of few regional parties, NDA won the elections, and Atal Bihari Bajpai became Prime Minister for the third time and served all five years. In 2004, NDA loosed the elections from United Progressive Alliance, which Congress-led and Dr Manmohan Singh were chosen as the Prime Minister and ruled for ten years.

Current Members of NDA

These are the current members of NDA with the states they belong to.

• Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) : leader and National Party
• All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from Tamil Nadu
• Pattali Makkal Katchi from Tamil Nadu
• Tamil Manila Congress from Tamil Nadu
• Lok Janshakti Party from Bihar
• Janta Dal from Bihar
• Hindustani Awam Morcha from Bihar
• Vikassheel Insaan Party from Bihar
• National people Party from Meghalaya
• United Democratic Party from Meghalaya
• People's Democratic Front from Meghalaya
• Hill State People's Democratic Party from Meghalaya
• Jana Sena Party from Andra Pradesh
• Jansurajyashakti Paksha from Maharashtra
• Rashtriya Samaj Paksha from Maharashtra
• Republican Party of India (Athawale) from Maharashtra
• Apna Dal (Sonelal) by Uttar Pradesh
• Mizo National Front by Mizoram
• All Jharkhand Students Union from Jharkhand
• Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party from Nagaland
• Sikkim Krantikari Morcha by Sikkim
• Asom Gana Parishad by Assam
• United People's Party Liberal from Assam
• All India N.R. Congress from Puducherry
• Jannayak Janta Party from Haryana
• Indigenous People's Front of Tripura from Tripura
• 3 Independent MPs in Lok Sabha and 1 in Rajya Sabha
• 3 nominated MP's from Rajya Sabha

Present State governments of NDA in India

Currently, many higher authorities such as the Prime Minister of India, Chief Minister of many States like Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Rajasthan and Odisha are from National Democratic Alliance. Still, BJP never gets Kerala, Telangana and West Bengal. Apart from this, many other parties belong to NDA that are in rule.

Here is a list of States along with their Chief Ministers who have NDA Governments.

What is the structure of NDA?

All the decisions regarding election seats, ministers and issues brought up in Parliament are taken by leaders and individual parties; NDA never interferes in that. There can be many disagreements from other parties and can have different votes in the alliance. There is an NDA Converter for this situation. At early, George Fernandez was the NDA converter, but in 2008, due to bad health, he left the position, and Sharad Yadav took charge. Currently, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Chandra Babu Naidu, is the NDA Converter.

People on the throne from the alliance

NDA gave a number of amazing Leaders to India; many Prime ministers, Presidents, Vice Presidents and many more are from NDA and here is a list of some of them.

Presidents

• APJ Abdul Kalam (2002- 2007)
• Ram Nath Kovind (2017-now)

Vice presidents

• Bhairot Singh Sikhawat (2002-2007)
• Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu (2017-now)

Prime Minister

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1998-2004)
• Narendra Modi (2014-now)

Deputy Chief Minister

• Chowna Mein
• Tarkishore Prasad
• Renu Devi
• Manohar Ajgaonkar
• Chandrakant Kavlekar
• Dushyant Chautala
• Yumnam JoyKumar Singh
• Prestone Tyson
• Yanthungo Patton
• Jishnu Dev Varma
• Keshav Prasad Maurya
• Dinesh Sharma

Past Members of NDA

In the end, let's talk about few members who left NDA.

1. Lok Shakti

State: Bihar

Year: 1999

Reason: merged with Janata Dal

2. J &K National Conference

State: Jammu and Kashmir

Year: 2002

Reason: Ditched BJP and called them the reason behind Loss.

3. Samta Party

State: Bihar

Year: 2003

Reason: merged with Janata Dal

4. Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 2004

Reason: Aligned with Congress

5. Haryana Vikas Party

State: Haryana

Year: 2004

Reason: aligned with Congress

6. Indian Federal Democratic Party

State: Kerala

Year: 2006

Reason: Merged with Kerala Congress

7. All India Trinamool Congress

State: National Party

Year: 2007

Reason: Joined with Congress Party

8. Janata Dal (Secular)

State: Karnataka

Year: 2007

Reason: left alliance because of not signing MOU

9. Indian National Lok Dal

State: Haryana

Year: 2009

Reason: due to seat assigning Issues

10. Biju Janata Dal

State: Odisha

Year: 2009

Reason: left just a month before the election

11. Telangana Rashtra Samithi

State: Telangana

Year: 2009

Reason: left because of defeat

12. Ladakh Union Territory Front

State: Jammu and Kashmir

Year: 2010

Reason: merged with BJP

13. Kamtapur Progressive Party

State: West Bengal

Year: 2010

Reason: merged with Kamptapur People's Party

14. Uttarakhand Kranti Dal

State: Uttarakhand

Year: 2012

Reason: with dawn before elections

15. Rashtriya Lok Dal

State: Uttar Pradesh

Year: 2012

Reason: they supported Congress in 2012

16. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha

State: Jharkhand

Year: 2012

Reason: withdrew from the alliance

17. Janata Party

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 2013

Reason: merged with BJP

18. Haryana Janhit Congress (BL)

State: Haryana

Year: 2014

Reason: merged with Congress

19. Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 2014

Reason: left in view to election

20. Kerala Congress (Nationalist)

State: Kerala

Year: 2016

Reason: merged with BJP

21. Kerala Janapaksham

State: Kerala

Year: 2016

Reason: Merged with BJP

22. Revolutionary Socialist Party of Kerala (Bolshevik)

State: Kerala

Year: 2016

Reason: Withdrawn because of elections

23. Maraland Democratic Front

State: Mizoram

Year: 2017

Reason: Merged with BJP

24. Swabhimani Paksha

State: Maharashtra

Year: 2017

Reason: Broke the alliance

25. Telugu Desam Party

State: Andhra Pradesh

Year: 2018

Reason: withdrawn the support as they were demanding a specific Category status for Andhra Pradesh

26. Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party

State: Jammu and Kashmir

Year: 2018

Reason: BJP withdrew the support for JKPDP- led Government

27. Rashtriya Lok Samata Party

State: Bihar

Year: 2018

Reason: for the Indian General Election

28. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha

State: West Bengal

Year: 2019

Reason: in the view of the Indian General Election

29. Janadhipathya Samrakshana Samithi

State: Kerala

Year: 2019

Reason: merged with Janadhipathya Samrakshana Samithi

30. Pravasi Nivasi Party

State: Kerala

Year: 2019

Reason: in view of the Indian General Elections

31. Janadhipathya Rashtriya Sabha

State: Kerala

Year: 2019

Reason:

32. Kerala Vikas Congress

State: Kerala

Year: 2019

Reason: Merged with Congress but still fraction is with NDA

33. Shiv Sena

State: Maharashtra

Year: 2019

Reason: Major Disagreement over power-sharing in Maharashtra

34. Gorkha Janmukti Morcha

State: West Bengal

Year: 2020

Reason: has aligned with All India Trinamool Congress.

35. Shiromani Akali Dal

State: Punjab

Year: 2020

Reason: against 3 Agriculture reforms law

36. Rashtriya Loktantrik Party

State: Rajasthan

Year: 2021

Reason: against 3 Agriculture reforms law

37. Bodoland People's Front

State: Assam

Year: 2021

Reason: broke the alliance for 2021 Assam Elections

38. Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam

State: Tamil Nadu

Year: 2021

Reason: didn't get enough support in Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Elections.

39. Goa Forward Party

State: Goa

Year: 2021

Reason: Left Because BJP isn't acting well toward Unemployed Goa citizens, according to them.

Conclusion

NDA is working as one of the big alliances from many previous years and in the rule. In future, it might give us as many future leaders as in the past.