1. The members shall abide by the core ideology, organizational principles and the Constitution.
2. The members shall uphold the unity, integrity and welfare of the nation above all.
3. The members shall follow the direction of the higher Level office-bearers.
4. The members shall be noble-hearted, law-abiding, industrious and socially conscious citizen of the nation and the world.
5. The members shall not bring the internal differences of opinion of the party members before the media or the public without the authorization of the Party.
6. The members shall work with full enthusiasm to ensure the victory of the candidates in various elections irrespective of personal differences of opinions or denial of ticket to oneself or one’s favored member.
1. Acting or carrying on propaganda against any program or decision of the Party.
2. Opposing the official candidate of the Party in elections to public bodies.
3. Violating any rile or disobeying any order passed by a competent authority of the Party.
4. Taking a Party dispute to any other agency outside the Party including print and electronic media.
5. Unauthorized collection of funds for the Party, misusing party funds or indulging in malpractices in enrolment of members or in the conduct of Party Elections.
6. Using the Party platform for propagation or collection of funds for organizations other than the party.
7. Acting in a way calculated to lower the prestige of the Party or carrying on propaganda against any Party or its office bearers.
8. Providing false information in the applications related to the Party.
9. Intentionally making antinational or discriminatory statements in public or private domain.
10. Discriminating on the base of race, religion, region, caste or sex.
11. Or any other activity that violates the party s core ideology or values
1. Disciplinary action committee of not more than 5 members will be constituted by the National and State Executive respectively at the National and State levels. These committees shall draw their own procedures.
2. A state disciplinary action committee can take action only against units subordinate to it and individuals other than the members of the National Council.
3. On receipt of a complaint for breach of discipline, the National President or the State President, if he so desires may suspend an individual or a Unit followed by a show cause notice within 30 days of the said order.
4. Maximum 10 days time from the receipt of such notice may be given to the person to reply. The State President within two weeks after the due date of the explanation shall forward the said complaint along with explanation, if any, to the State Disciplinary Action Committee.
5. Disciplinary action committee will submit its report to the President in not more than two weeks. The State President shall take action on the recommendation of the Disciplinary action committee within a week. If final order is not passed even after the prescribed time, the case will be referred to the immediate next meeting of the State Executive for decision. The State President will communicate the action taken to the concerned person or unit within a month.
6. No final decision for breach of discipline shall be take against any individual or a unit without an opportunity being given to the individual or unit concerned to explain and answer such charges as are made against it or him/ her.
7. Any disciplinary action at the state level shall be reported to the National President within a week of taking such action.
8. Any unit or member aggrieved by the disciplinary action taken by the state unit may go in appeal within 2 weeks to the Central Disciplinary Committee. The appeal shall be disposed off within two months. The State President shall communicate the appellant the action taken by the Central Disciplinary Committee within one month.
9. Any member contesting election against the official candidate of the Party will be summarily expelled from the Party by the State President or the National President.
10. The National President if he so desires, may suspend any member and then start the disciplinary proceedings against him.
Article 7.1: Plenary session.
1. The following shall be entitled to attend the plenary session. a) All members of the National council b) All members of the state council, c) All members of the Parliament, d) All members of the state legislature, e) All other members invited by the National Executive and members of the Core Group.
2. A plenary session of the Party shall be held once in every term at such time and place as may be determined by the National Executive.
3. The National President shall preside at the said session.
1. A special session of the Party will be held when the National Executive decides to hold such meeting with a specific agenda and the Core Group approves it with a majority vote.
2. All members of the National council shall be the delegates for the special session.
a) Meetings: Meetings of various units of the Party shall be held at least as under:
1. National Council – once a year.
2. National Executive and State Executive – Once in 6 months.
3. District, Mandal/Taluk/Block and Gram committee – once in 6 months.
4. In the event the meetings are not held the head of the respective unit shall report it to the higher unit or its head.
5. Notice for the meetings shall be 3 weeks prior to the meeting and in case of an Emergency meeting 7 days.
6. In exceptional cases the National President or the State President shall decide what is deemed appropriate.
b) Vacancies: Members absenting without approval for three consecutive meetings of their unit will be liable to be removed by a resolution of the concerned unit. A president can remove an office bearer nominated by him only after his committee adopts a motion to the effect.
Quorum for all meetings of the Core Group, Executive, Committee and Council shall be one-third of the strength of the unit. Use of Videoconference and teleconference at Core Group and National Executive meeting is permitted. Members have to be physically present for all other meetings. The quorum for amendment of the constitution or removal of the Core Group Member or National President shall be 75 percent of that unit.
A delegate shall not be permitted to take part in any session or meeting of the Council unless he pays the requisite delegate fee.
Article 7.5(a): Conduct of Internal Party Elections
1. The National Executive shall appoint a National Returning officer for framing rules and conducting elections within the Party.
2. The state Returning officers are appointed by the National Returning officer.
3. The District Returning officer is appointed by the State Returning officer.
4. The Mandal/Taluk/Block Returning officer is appointed by the District Returning officer.
5. Elections for the State Council members, District level and Mandal/Taluk/Block level shall be held only when 50% of the Mandals/Taluks/Blocks in the District have been duly constituted.
6. Nomination of members of such bodies, if at all provided, should be restricted to a minimum scale, not exceeding 1I3 rd of the strength of the CommitteeBody at state, district and mandal/Taluk/Block levels.
7. The decision making process is by way of majority vote of the members of the representative bodies of the appropriate levels.
Article 7.5(b): Timeframe of Internal Party Elections
The party will hold periodic and regularelections to all offices and office bearers, on a term basis (every 4 yrs)at all organ levels of the party except the advisory and consultation roles in the advisory/legal/Media/ etc.committees. Such committees and sub committees will be formed (& dissolved as required) at each organ level in the organization, from time to time for smooth functioning of the party. The decision making process is by way of majority vote of the members of the representative bodies of the appropriate levels.
The party shall contest an election conducted by the Election Commission within five years of its registration and thereafter shall continue to contest. If the Party does not contest elections continuously for 6 yrs, the Party will be taken off the list of Registered Parties.
Article 7.6: Election disputes within the Party:
Subject to the rules framed by the National Executive, the State Executive, District Executive and Mandal/Taluk/Block committee shall make arrangements for dealing and disposing of all disputes arising out of elections to units and organs within the jurisdiction.
1. A five member State finance committee will be constituted by the state treasurer after consultation with the National Treasurer.
2. A five member National finance committee will be constituted by the National Treasurer.
3. The respective committees will be responsible for collection of funds, expenditure and maintenance of accounts in their respective jurisdiction.
1. Constitution can be amended only by 2/3 vote of the National Council and then ratified by the Core Group.
2. Amendments to the ideology part of the constitution can be done only by 2/3 voteof the National council and ratified by 100% vote of the Core group.
3. The National Executive can make recommendation to the Core Group for amendment of the constitution between two plenary sessions followed by the process in section (1) and (2) of Article 9.
A special session shall be called by the President of the Party after a meeting of the National executive and approval by the Core group. All members of the National council shall be invited to this meeting. Any proposal pertaining to merger, split or dissolution of the Party shall be presented to all the delegates by the National President. A resolution passed by 2/3 majority of the National council and ratified by all the members (100%) of the Core group will be final.
In the case of dissolution all the assets after adjusting the liabilities will be transferred to the government of India (Bharat).
Bharatam shall bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established, and to the principles of socialism, secularism and democracy and would uphold the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India "
The slogan of the Party shall be “Satyameva Jayate”.
1. The National President can be nominated by the Core Group until the next plenary session is conducted.
2. The National President will be elected by the National Council at the plenary session and approved by the Core Group by majority vote unless nominated by the Core Group.
3. Minimum age shall be 35 years.
4. Has high educational credentials and an impeccable track record.
5. Has no criminal record.
6. Has outstanding accomplishments in professional or public life.
7. Provide leadership and give direction to the Party at all levels.
8. The term shall be 4 yrs with a maximum of 2 terms.