This work is a visualization of the various characteristics of the political parties and its members of the 16th Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament. The data can be downloaded from http://www.prsindia.org/mptrack/rajyasabha under the Download Data section. For a vast majority of the Ministers of Parliament(MPs), their offices started from 18-May-14 and most they are presently holding their offices. Please note that the work is a visual summarization of the data and no effort has been carried to find the functional relationship between the concerned variables. For the complete set of codes and the dataset, please visit https://github.com/satyakamacodes/Nature-and-characteristics-of-Indian-political-parties The author neither claims nor is responsible for the authenticity of the data.