Consider the following statements :(a) In addition to existing conditions, the Election Commission in 2005 introduced one more condition that a party has to be recognised as state party in a minimum of four states to be eligible for the National Party status.(b) The earlier norm was to secure 4% of total votes polled in a minimum of 8 states. Choose the correct option :

• A. (a) is true
• B. (b) is true
• C. Both (a) and (b) are true
• D. Both (a) and (b) are false