The political parties that voted in favour of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha are (311 votes):
*Bharatiya Janata Party: the ruling party in the country, whose national president is Amit Shah
*Shiv Sena (which expressed disgruntlement about certain aspects of the bill), whose leader Udhav Thackarey is the chief minister of Maharashtra
*Janata Dal (United) helmed by Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar
*Biju Janata Dal helmed by Naveen Patnaik who is the current chief minister of Odisha
*Lok Janshakti Party, led by Ram Vilas Paswan
*YSRCP or the YSR Congress party (YSR being an acronym for Yuvajana Sramika Rythu) led by YS Jaganmohan Reddy, who is the current chief minister of Andhra Pradesh
*Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) led by Ajit Singh, whose presence is most in western Uttar Pradesh
*AIADMK (All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) is a regional political party in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. It is currently in power in Tamil Nadu
*NDPP is the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party – a regional political party in Nagaland. Chingwang Konyak is the president of NDPP.
*NPF Naga People’s Front is a regional party in Manipur and Nagaland
*NPP – the National People’s Party has presence in Meghalaya, founded by PA Sangma, now led by Conrad Sangma
The political parties that voted against the bill are (80 votes):
*Congress: founded in 1885, now led by Sonia Gandhi
*Trinamool Congress – led by Mamata Banerjee, who is chief minister of West Bengal
*TRS: Telengana Rashtra Samithi is a regional political party based in Telangana, led by K. Chandrashekar Rao
*DMK: Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has major presence in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry and is led by MK Stalin.
*NCP: Nationalist Congress Party is led by Sharad Pawar. It is part of the alliance government in Maharashtra where Congress and Shiv Sena are the other constituents
*BSP: Bahujan Samaj Party was formed to represent Bahujans, the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Castes, along with religious minorities. Their presence in mainly in Uttar Pradesh and is led by Mayawati.
*SP: Samajwadi Party is based in Uttar Pradesh, and currently led by Akhilesh Yadav.
*CPI-M: The Communist Party of India (Marxist), was formed in 1964. The current general secretary is Sitaram Yechury.
*CPI: The Communist Party of India is the oldest communist political party in India with Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy as the current secretary general.
*RSP: Revolutionary Socialist Party was founded in 1940. TJ Chandrachoodan is the current secretary general.
*AIMIM: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen is a political party based in Telangana, led by Asadussin Owaisi.
*IUML: Indian Union Muslim League is a state party in Kerala led by KM Kader Mohideen.
*AIUDF: All India United Democratic Front is active in Assam, led by Badruddin Ajmal though its name at that time was Assam United Democratic Front.
*Sikkim Krantikari Morcha: Sikkim Krantikari Morcha is based in Sikkim, led by Prem Singh Tamang.
*VCK (Tamil Nadu): Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi is a Tamil Nationalist political party in Tamil Nadu, led by Thol. Thirumavalavan.
*Kerala Congress (M): It is a state-level political party in Kerala, led by KM Mani.
*AAP: Aam Aadmi Party is the ruling party in Delhi, led by Arvind Kejriwal who is the chief minister.
The bill will now be taken up in the Rajya Sabha.
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