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The article examines the nature and features of the Indian party system and the factors influencing it. India has a multiparty system with a two-block character. The main parties are the right-wing Bharata Janata Party, which defends the ideas of Hindu nationalist ideology and expresses the interests of the Hindu majority of the population, and the Indian National Congress, a center-left social democratic party focused primarily on supporting the poor strata of Indian society, representatives of lower castes and former untouchables, national minorities (tribes), as well as religious minorities of India.