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PREAMBLE

1. The All India Forward Bloc, the party founded by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, is a revolutionary party which accepts Scientific Socialism as its objective.

2. It believes in the theory of class struggle in its fullest implications.

3. It aims at the establishment of a Union of Socialist Republic in India leading to classless society through socialist revolution.

4. In its task of determining the course of revolution, its contents and forms at all phases and in its endeavor to apply the universal truth of scientific Socialism, it shall constantly seek to take into account the objectives national conditions, contexts and particularities.

5. The forward Bloc declares its allegiance to the teachings and leadership of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, which kindled the revolutionary aspirations of the people of India and of the whole of South-East Asia to win national freedom and a new order of life, free from all form of exploitation.

6. The Forward Bloc accepts the programme of postwar revolution, as envisaged by Netaji, for the establishment of Socialism in Indian context and under Indian conditions.

7. The Forward Bloc, born out of the long intense and patriotic struggles waged by the people of India for national Independence shall continue to draw sustenance, inspiration and carry forward its rich heritages particularly those of the left.

8. The Forward Bloc pledge to wage relentless and protracted war against imperialism which is great threat to global peace and existence.

9. The Forward Bloc firmly affirms that in all its effort to achieve the aims, it shall draw inspiration and relevant lessons from the teachings of Revolutionary leaders of different parts of the world, and other revolutionary thinkers in the directions of transformations of class- based society into a classless one. It will also take lessons from the experience of revolutions towards socialism that have taken place in different countries and of experiments in socialist reconstruction going on in these countries, but will develop its own line suitable to the particular conditions of India.

ARTICLE I

NAME

The name of the party shall be the All India forward Bloc.

ARTICLE II

PARTY FLAG

The flag of the party shall be a red flag of which the length shall be one- and- a-half time its width. There shall be a leaping tiger on the flag with the tiger facing the top of the pole. At the right top of the flag there shall be a crossed hammer and sickle, just above the tiger’s tail. The body of the tiger shall be in yellow and block; Hammer and sickle be in white.

ARTICLE III

THE PARTY TO UPHOLD SOVEREIGNTY,UNITY AND INTEGRITY OF INDIA

The Party 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.

ARTICLE IV (A)

The Party shall organize continues training for the Party members.

ARTICLE IV (B)

FRONTS AND MASS ORGANISATIONS

The Party shall work in the following fronts and mass organizations:

a. labor - Trade Union Co-operation Centre (TUCC)

b. Peasants - All India Agragami kisan Sabha

c. Youth - All India Youth League

d. Students - All India students Bloc

e. Volunteers - Ajad Hind Volunteers

f. Women - All India Agragami Mahila Manch (Samity)

g. Cultural - Lok Samskriti Samsad

h. Teachers - Organizations of Primary Secondary, college and university

teachers affiliated to the Federations of All-India Primary

Secondary, college and university teachers’ and Employees’

Organizations.

2. The Party may set up other mass organizations, if necessary.

3. The Party may form ‘Cell’, if necessary for organizational purposes.

ARTICLE V

MEMBERSHIP

1. There shall be two categories of members in the Party, i.e. (a) Associate Members and (b) Active Members.

2. Any citizen of India 18 years of age or above who accepts the aim and objects of the party as enunciated in the Preamble of the constitution, and the Programme and Constitution of the Party, having experience of work in any formal organization of the Party, having experience of work in any formal organization of the Party may apply for associate membership of the party on recommendation of the respective party unit.

3. Associate members perform the Party programme and duties effectively, consistently and sincerely as assigned by the respective party units and having a fair knowledge in theoretical, tactical and organizational principles of the party may apply for Active Membership on recommendation by respective party units.

4. The primary unit of the Party shall recommended to the local Committee as to whether an Associate Member will be an active Member, and the decision of Local Committee in this regard shall be final subject to the approval of higher committee, up to the level of the Central Committee of the Party.

Explanation:- The central Committee of the party shall decide the maximum the maximum number of Associate and Active Members in a particular state. Similarly a state Committee of the Party shall decide the maximum number of Associate and Active members, in a particular district. In such a case, the district committee shall distribute the membership, both Associate and Active, allotted for the district among the lower committee.

5. The Central Committee of the Party shall prepare the programme for enrolment of members, both Active and Associate every year.

6. (a) The secretariat of the State/District committees shall from the scrutiny Committee, subject to the approval of the State/District committee to receive complaints as to the enrolment and other membership related issues of members within the state and scrutiny Committee shall submit its report to the Secretariat of the State/District committee within the specified period and the decision taken by the State /District committee shall take decision on it.

(b) If any case District Scrutiny committee shall have to dispose of all the applications within sixty days of the receipt of such applications.

(c)If any case District Scrutiny committee fails to dispose off any such applications within the stipulated time the benefit will go in flavor of the applicant.

(d) Any appeal against the decision of the District committee may be made directly to the State committee by the aggrieved party member or applicant (Active /Associate) within seven days from the date of receipt of the decision of the District committee.

(e) Any appeal against the decision of the state committee may be made directly to the Central committee by the aggrieved party member (Active /Associate) or applicant within fifteen days from the date of receipt of the decision of the state committee

(f) The central Committee shall decide to dispose all the applications regarding membership disputes within ninety days.

7. The central Committee shall decide upon the Schedule/time table for check-up renewal/enrolment of membership, both Associate or Active, every year.

Any member who has not taken part in Party activities for a period of six months, or has failed to pay party dues or levy and against whom there are other charges as defined in Article XIII shall be dropped from membership.

8. A member from another left, democratic and secular political party may be admitted as an active member of the Party on the recommendation of the Party unit of appropriate level. The decision shall have to be ratified by the next higher Committee.

9. A member Associate or Active may resign from the Party by submitting a letter of resignation under his/her own signature to the primary unit of the party with which he or she is attached.

Explanation:- (a) The primary unit may or may not accept his/her resignations. If the resignation is not accepted, the reason for not accepting the resignation shall have to the member, who has resigned.

(b) If there is a charge of violation of party discipline against the member of the party, who has submitted the resignation, the party Committee, making such a charge against him/her shall continue the proceedings of action against him/her notwithstanding the fact that he/she has submitted the resignation.

10. An expelled member of the party may be readmitted by the decision of the party Committee which confirmed his/her expulsion, subject to the approval of the higher committee.

ARTICLE VI

MEMBERSHIP FEE

All members, Associate and Active, shall pay a Party membership fee for hour & five rupees per year respectively.

ARTICLE VII

MEMBERSHIP CARDS

1. On admission to membership, every Active and Associate member shall be issued a membership card.

2. Party membership cards shall be uniform throughout the country and shall be issued by the Central Committee.

ARTICLE VIII

1. All Party Committees, from primary to central level shall maintain registers of members, both Associate and Active within their respective jurisdiction.

2. In the event of any member seeking transfer from one place to other place to other place, the concerned committee shall take decision subject to the consent of the committee to which transfer has been sought for with the approval of higher committees according to the jurisdiction of both the committees.

3. Any member may avail leave on application stating the grounds.

ARTICLE IX

PARTY LEVY

1. All the Associate and Active members shall have to pay 1% (one percent) of their income as party levy.

2. The levy shall be collected by the lowest units and that shall be distributed in the following manner.

Branch Committee 20%

Local Committee 20%

Zonal Committee 15%

District Committee 20%

State Committee 15%

Central Committee 10%

Explanation: 1. The levy shall always be on one point levy. A member, Associate or Active, shall have to pay levy to one committee only, either to the Central Committee or to the state Committee or to the District Committee or to the local.

2. The non-payment of Party Levy by any member shall be considered as violation of Party discipline and proper action by the relevant committee against the member, who has not paid the party levy shall have to be taken.

3. In addition to usual fees and levis all the party committees may impose extra levy from all/ some party members for better functioning of the party. Besides this, party units of all level, must arrange accordingly to raise fund through public donations, crop-collections and regular sale of party Organs, booklets etc.

ARTICLE X

RIGHTS OF MEMBERS

1. (a) Active Members –An active members shall have the right to be elected and elect at all levels

(b) Associate member- An Associate member shall have the right to be elected and elected and elected at the branch levels.

(c) To participate in the activity of the party, including the activities of different frontal mass organizations and cells, attached to the party.

(d) To take part in discussion in the Party, appropriate levels for formulation of policies and programmes of the party.

(e) To make proposals regarding their own work in the party and to get work assigned to themselves.

(f) In case of a difference with any decision of a party unit, a member has the right to submit his or her opinion, in writing, to the higher committee. In such a case, he/she is to keep the criticism of the decision of the Party Unit within the Party and not to disclose anything outside.

(g) To make criticism about Party units and functionaries in Party meetings and not to disclose anything outside.

(h) To be heard in person in person in his or her unit in the Party when the unit discusses disciplinary action against him or her.

ARTICLE XI

Duties Of Members

1. The duties of members are as follows:

(a) To participate in the activities of the Party and to faithfully carry out the policy, decisions and the directives of the party and to pay regularly the levy as fixes by the party.

(b) To fight for the cause of the toiling masses.

(d) To study the life and teachings of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and History of Freedom Movement of India, specially revolutionary activities, Indian traditions, cultures, heritages, contemporary developments on national and international scenes.

(e) To study the basic principles of Scientific Socialism.

(f) To subscribe one of the official party organs; read, support and popularize party journals and publications.

(g) To place the interests of the people and the party above personal interests.

(h) To cultivate comradely relations towards one another within the party.

(i) To defend the party and uphold its ideology and cause against the attacks by the enemies of the party the toiling people and the country.

(j) To fight consistently against the forces of secessionism and communalism and to defend the unity and integrity of the nation.

(k) To fight against world capitalist, imperialist and neo-colonial forces.

(l) To fight against obscurantist, Xenophobic and all other reactionary forces.

(m)To fight for social justice and sustainable developments.

ARTICLE XII

PRINCIPLES OF PARTY FUNCTIONS

The following shall be the guiding principles for the functioning of the Party.

(a) Democratic Centralism based on complete inner party democracy.

(b) Elected bodies for party Committees at all levels from top to bottom at regular intervals.

(c) Strong discipline for all members, associate and active legislators and other members of public bodies elected and nominated and office bearers of all committee.

(d) Acceptance of the decision of the majority in a Party organ by all, including those who differ with the majority opinion.

(e) Regular reporting on organizational work and other matters connected with the Party by members.

(f) All the party committees shall follow the principle of progress for the organization through collective decisions with individuals responsibility and necessary arrangements of check-up in all levels strictly.

(g) The central Committee of the party shall take decisions on all National and international issues. It shall also express opinion on such issues which are related with the interests of a numbers of states and where the nation deserves an uniform and identical policy decision. In state and district level the party committee of respective of respective jurisdiction shall express opinion and take decision on all the relevant issues of respective limits. But in no case the decision of the lower committee shall contradict the decision of the higher committees.

(h) The Central Committee of the party is the only authority to express views on such issues which has not been covered before in any stage in the documents of the Party Congress. Moreover, in any new situation, the committee/ Central Secretariat may issue statement on behalf of the party.

(i) Free and open discussion should be encouraged in the Party meetings.

(j) Continuous efforts should be taken to educate and involve the party members effectively in party programme and in the process of building up of the party and to popularize the party policy and programme.

(k) In all levels of the organization, the process of construction criticism and self criticism shall be encouraged.

ARTICLE XIII

PARTY DISCIPLINE

1. Acceptance of the Constitution of the Party, the Programme and policies of the Party and the decisions taken by different organs is the very basis of party discipline.

2. All members, Associate and Active shall be equally bound by Party discipline irrespective of their status in the Pastry organization or in public life.

3. Steps for action for violation of Party discipline may be taken against a member if he or she is found to have committed one or more of the following offences:

(a) Violation of any provision of the constitution of the Party:

(b) Refusal to obey the decision of the Party at appropriate level and directive issued to him/her by the competent authority in the party.

(d) Making of a speech in public, issuing a statement in the Press, and writing and publishing of articles in the Press, handbills, booklets, posters, letters against a decision of the Party.

(e) Misconduct in behavior with a members of the Party or any one outside the Party.

(f) Leaking out of the proceedings of a meeting of Party organ or any other confidential information about the party outside including the Press.

(g) Misappropriation of Party or public fund.

4. Charges brought against any member of any committee shall be dealt with by the concer-

-ned committee after giving him/her a responsible opportunity of hearing.

5. In dealing with a case of violation of Party discipline the concerned Party Committee shall

first try to settle it by persuasions and to rectify the member.

6. Any of the following actions may be taken against a member for violation of party

discipline:

I. Warning

II. Censoring

III. Suspension from certain responsibility in the Party; relieving from certain responsibilities.

IV. Suspension from Party membership for a certain period.

V. Expulsion from Party membership.

7. An aggrieved member may go on appeal to the next higher committee. In case of suspension or expulsion, he can move up to the Central Committee and the Central control Commission.

8. In case the member against whom the charge of violation of party discipline is brought by a party Committee is a member of a higher party Committee, the entire case of such violation shall have to be sent to the higher Committee with the Comments of the Committee with which such charge of violation of party discipline is first raised for final decision in the matter.

9. A party Committee may take action against immediate lower Committee for violation of party discipline, non-functioning and malfunctioning. The lower Committee shall however be given responsible opportunity to defend itself. If such situations arises, the higher Committee shall from an ad-hoc Committee for the concerned lower Committee.

If the is Committee aggrieved, it may appeal to the next higher committee of the

Committee which has taken the action.

ARTICLE XIV

ALL INDIA PARTY CONGRESS

1. The Supreme organ of the Party for the whole country shall be the All India Party Congress.

2. The Party Congress shall ordinarily be held once in four years. The central committee may defer the holding of the party Congress under special circumstances.

3. (a) Central Committee may convene special extraordinary meeting under special circumstances.

(b) Requisition meeting:- An extra-ordinary Party Congress be requisitioned by one-third

of the delegates elected to the last All India party Congress.

exclusively about the ideological issues and party programme under special

circumstances.

The basis of the representation to the Special extra ordinary meeting and plenum shall be

determined by the central Committee.

4. The date and avenue of the Party Congress and Extra –ordinary Party Congress shall be decided by the Central Committee.

5. The total number of delegates to the Party Congress shall not exceed one thousand in any case.

The basis of the respectation to the Congress shall be determined by the Central committee.

6. The Chairman of the Party shall preside over the Party Congress and the Extra-ordinary Party Congress and he will conduct the proceedings of the Congress with the help of the members of the Secretariat of the Central committee.

7. Functions and procedures of the regular Party Congress are as follows:

(a) To discuss and adopt the political and organizational report of the Central committee.

(b) To discuss and adopt the draft resolutions on national and international situation and

other relevant issues prepared by the Central committee.

(d) To amend the party Constitution, if necessary.

(e) To discuss any other matter, brought before it by the Central committee.

(f) To elect the National Council.

(g) To elect Central Committee including the members of the Secretariat. And office

bearers.

ARTICLE XV

NATIONAL COUNCIL

1. In between the two Party Congress, the national Council shall be the highest policy formulating body of the party.

2. The Party Congress shall elect the National Council consisting of members not exceeding 250.

3. The National Council shall meet at least once in between two party congress. The Central Committee shall convene the meeting of the National Council.

4. The function of the National Council shall be as follows:

(a) To receive report on Party organizations prepared by the Central Committee and to take decision on them.

(b) To discuss any matter brought before it by the Central Committee for its considerations.

ARTICLE XVI

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

1. The Central Committee shall consist of members not mare than 65, including the members of the Secretariat and office bearers, and not below 31. In electing the members of the Central Committee, care should be taken to see that there is at least one member each from all the states where the Party functions.

2. The Central Committee shall functions for a period from one regular party Congress to the other.

3. The Central Committee shall be responsible for enforcing the constitution of the Party and for implementations of the decisions adopted by the party Congress, whether regular or extra ordinary and by the National council.