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Abstract: India is a largest democracy with the largest population in the world. A notable feature of Indian Political System is multi-political party system. Therefore, the existence of many political parties can be seen in India in the forms of national, regional local parties to fulfill the needs, demands and aspirations of the people. The Election Commission of India conducts quarterly evaluations of the situation of political parties, and the political parties must register with the Commission in order to run in council, state and national elections. As of now, there are around 2,598 parties registered in India, of which only a few are recognized as national parties, many of them are recognized as regional parties and around 2500 parties are unrecognized parties. In this paper, we are going to focus the necessity of regional parties in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) -a tribal administration area. Regional party means a party operating within a limited geographical area and its activities are restricted only to a single or few states. These regional parties focus and represent the interest, needs and requirements of a particular area. They focus on particular concerns such as the creation of jobs, satisfaction of local demands, language and culture of the local people, etc. They solely seek to capture power at the state or regional level and do not aspire to control the national government. The Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) is a Sixth Scheduled administrative district council of Assam comprising of five districts namely Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa, Udalguri and Tamulpur. It was earlier known as Bodoland Territorial Administrative Districts (BTAD) created on 10 February 2003, and was renamed as Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) with the 3rd Bodo Agreement on 27 January 2020. The regional parties of this region play an important role in the formation of council and state government of Assam. At present, there are basically two dominant regional political parties in BTR, these are Bodoland People's Front (BPF) and United People's Party Liberal (UPPL). The Bodoland People's Front was in power for 17 years from 2003 to 2020, and presently the power of the council is in the hand of coalition government of UPPL, BJP and GSP. The rapid all round development and fulfillment of the needs and demands of the people can be seen in the region under the control of regional political parties, therefore it is very important to study the necessity of regional political parties in BTR.