New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- Continuing with its cleaning up of electoral system, the Election Commission of India has delisted another 474 Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPPs).
In a statement, the ECI said it had also started the proceedings of delisting 359 more RUPPs.
According to the statement, the guidelines for registration of political parties mentions that if the party does not contest elections continuously for 6 years, the party shall be taken off the list of registered parties.
"As part of a comprehensive and continuous strategy to clean up the electoral system, the ECI has been conducting a nationwide exercise to identify and delist RUPPs which have failed to fulfil the essential condition of contesting even a single e...