e and territorial assemblies
People's Assembly (Lok Sabha): elections last held 21 May, 12 and 15
June 1991 (next to be held 27 April through May 1996); results -
percent of vote by party NA; seats - (545 total, 543 elected, 2
appointed) Congress (I) Party 245, BJP 119, Janata Dal Party 39,
Janata Dal (Ajit Singh) 20, CPI/M 35, CPI 14, Telugu Desam 13,
AIADMK 11, Samajwadi Janata Party 5, Shiv Sena 4, RSP 4, BSP 1,
Congress (S) Party 1, other 23, vacant 9; note - the distribution of
seats as of 18 January 1995 is as follows: Congress (I) Party 260,
BJP 117, CPI/M 36, Janata Dal Party 24, Samata Party 14, CPI 14,
AIADMK 12, Janata Dal (Ajit) 7, Telugu Desam 7, RSP 4, Janata Dal
(Ex-Ajit) 3, Samajwadi Party 3, BSP 3, AIFB 3, Shiv Sena 2, Congress
(S) Party 1, Kerala Congress (Mani faction) 1, Bihar Peoples Party
1, India National League 1, other 14, vacant 16

Judicial branch: Supreme Court, judges are appointed by the
president

Political parties and leaders: Congress (I) Party, P. V. Narasimha
RAO, president; Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), L.K. ADVANI; Janata
Dal Party, Laloo Prasad YADAV; Janata Dal (Ajit), Ajit SINGH; Janata
Dal (Ex-Ajit), leader NA; Communist Party of India/Marxist (CPI/M),
Harkishan Singh SURJEET; Communist Party of India (CPI), Indrajit
GUPTA; Telugu Desam (Naidu) (a regional party in Andhra Pradesh),
Chandrababu NAIDU; All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (AIADMK;
a regional party in Tamil Nadu), Jayaram JAYALALITHA; Samajwadi
Party (SP), Mulayam Singh YADAV (president), Om Prakash CHAUTALA,
Devi LAL; Shiv Sena, Bal THACKERAY; Revolutionary Socialist Party
(RSP), Tridip CHOWDHURY; Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Kanshi RAM;
Congress (S) Party, leader NA; Communist Party of
India/Marxist-Leninist (CPI/ML), Vinod MISHRA; Dravida Munnetra
Kazagham (a regional party in Tamil Nadu), M. KARUNANIDHI; Akali Dal
factions representing Sikh religious community in the Punjab;
National Conference (NC; a regional party in Jammu and Kashmir),
Farooq ABDULLAH; Bihar Peoples Party, Lovely ANAND; Samata Party
(formerly Janata Dal members), George FERNANDES; Indian National
League, Suliaman SAIT; Kerala Congress (Mani faction), K.M. MANI;
All India Forward Bloc (AIFB), Prem Dutta PALIWAL (chairman), Chitta
BASU (general secretary); Congress (Tiwari), Arjun SINGH and N.D.
TIWARI

Other political or pressure groups: various separatist groups
se