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India, officially the Republic is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. India is a republic consisting of 28 states and seven union territories with a parliamentary system of democracy. For most of the years since independence, the federal government has been led by the Indian National Congress (INC). Politics in the states have been dominated by several national parties including the INC, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) and various regional parties. From 1950 to 1990, barring two brief periods, the INC enjoyed a parliamentary majority. In 1998, the BJP formed the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) with several other parties and became the first non-Congress government to complete a full five-year term. In the 2004 Indian elections, the INC won the largest number of Lok Sabha seats and formed a government with a coalition called the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). UPA again came into power in Indian general election, 2009 although the weightage of Left leaning parties have reduced drastically in the coalition.