India is now gearing up for the upcoming 16th Lok Sabha Election, which is slated in between March and May. These election will be very decisive and a good contest between Congress and BJP parties. However, with third front in planning phase and Aam Aadmin Party playing a major alternative role for all the current political parties in India.
16th Lok Sabha Election will be closely watch by the world as it may change the face of India in next 5 years.
With UPA –1 and 2 ruling for last 10 years and with many ups and down during the regime. It has been a steady growth in all sectors, with many schemes and project launched. Many projects were launched which has been successful during the rule such as MNREGA, Aadhar, DBTL projects in infrastructure and industry sops.
With the election on the verge, UPA 2 is now trying to push hard on many projects, schemes which will be launched before the election in order to gain the popularity and come back to power.
Let’s look at the Political Party leadership:
Congress Party : (Rahul Gandhi – Prime Minister Candidate)
The Indian National Congress (Congress) is one of the two major political parties in India and oldest political parties in the country formed during the Pre-independence era.
In the 2009 general elections, the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha, with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member house. Congress did form UPA (United Progressive Alliance) with other parties in order to form the Government during 2004 and 2009 election. Dr Manmohan Singh has been the Prime Minister from last two decades.
Sonia Gandhi is the President of the Congress party and leading the party from the front. She has been involved in all major decision and also now pushing hard to bring Rahul Gandhi as the front runner for the President post of the party and also Prime Ministerial Candidate for the 2014 LokSabha Election.
Rahul Gandhi is the Vice- President of the Congress party and has been actively involved in politics from many years. He has been a actively player in policy making and also some major changes within the party, which led the party to bow down and make changes.
For 16th Lok Sabha Election Rahul Gandhi may be the Congress Prime Ministerial Candidate, yet to be declared by the party.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – (Narendra Modi – Prime Minister Candidate)
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the second largest party in India and has been the principal opposition party in parliament from 2004. BJP has always been following it policies and describing itself as cultural nationalism.
Rajnath Singh is the President of the party with Sushma Swaraj leader of the Lok Sabha and Arun Jailtley leader of the Rajya Sabha.
BJP did come into power under the leadership of Sri Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1998 - 2004. However, it loss the 14th & 15th Lok Sabha election. However, in 2008 BJP did see a light of ruling first South India State Karnataka where it won assembly elections.
With all kinds of allegation on BJP related to corruption and scams in the states that they are ruling. During their all party meeting held in Goa in 2013, Party elected Rajnath Singh to lead from front for upcoming Lok Sabha Election.
The first major decision taken by the party or Rajnath Singh was promoting Narendra Modi to lead 
the Political campaign for the upcoming Assembly election in 5 states and then declaring Mr.Modi as Prime Ministerial Candidate for the 16th Lok Sabha Elections.
In the Assembly election results that came out in December 2013, BJP led all 4 states with clear majority and thus giving confidence to the party that they will win the Lok Sabha election under the leadership of Narendra Modi.
Narendra Modi is current chief Minister of the Gujarat and also prime ministerial candidate of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance for the upcoming 2014 Indian general elections.
Third Front – (Yet to decide)
Third Front was formed as an alternative for the Congress and BJP and get active in National politics spaces. This was formed by many smaller parties of states within the country.
The third front is led by Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Janata Dal, Trinamool, CPI, CPM and many other smaller parties in the country.
However, these parties with no same idealogy was collapsed. With 2014 Lok Sabha election in process, Third front has come back in action and getting ready their acts ready. However, it will be still a long process, as the parties will decide after the election was needs to be done.
However, CPM has made it clear that AAP may be an alternative to both the national parties and it can play a major role in Third Front formation.
We need to wait watch on what is going to happen.
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