There are 359 political parties registered with it, which includes 17 recognised national political parties and the rest 342 political parties are unrecognised political parties. The Maharashtra Election Commission today cancelled the registration of Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM as a state-based political party over its failure in filing its income and fund details. This bold step will pave way for bringing some sort of transparency and accountability among the political parties," he said. The SECM had in stages sent notices to 326 such unrecognised political parties. "We had received a notice from the state election commission four months ago.

Source: India Today July 13, 2016 11:37 UTC