Introduction to Vikalp Party Constitution
Our party has full faith in the Constitution of India. The name of our party will be Vikalp Party or if this is rejected, Party will decide on alternate name.
Main Party Agenda-Manifesto – According to this constitution, the main agenda is given in the agenda-manifesto of the party. The first agenda is that the work details of the government officials should be easily visible to the public on website along with details of how much funds came and how much funds were spent so that the Public can support good officials. Some of the other party agendas are Procedure to replace the government officials and representatives, Jury system and TCP media portal. For full details, please see – brvp.org/manifesto
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Voter number support on issues and drafts proposed by the Party displayed on internet– Any voter can support the issues of the party with his / her voter number or address and display the support publicly via SMS, twitter. Activist can also collect Voter number / address supports for an issue on a piece of paper along with summary and link of the issue and that piece of paper can be scanned and shared on internet. Party has also created a platform for Voters to display their Voter number support for an issue – sms.brvp.org On this website, any voter can register and put his issue and other voters can can display publicly their support for that issue with their Voter number. Voter can change or cancel his / her support any day. In this way, the issue will get more and more supports until it is implemented. Today, most parties or representatives leave the issue after being voted into power. But if the Voter number support for an issue is publicly displayed, then even if the party or the representatives leave the issue, even then the possibility that issue gets implemented and the issue reaches its goal increases.
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Party Membership – If any Indian Voter publicly supports the issues written in the party agenda-manifesto and the party constitution, then he / she can declare himself / herself as an ordinary member. After filling and submitting a form and after a small payment and after obtaining some Contribution points for the drafts and issues proposed by the party, that ordinary member can get active (full) membership of the party. Only an active member can vote on internal party matters.
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Every active (full) member of the party will be given Contribution points according to his work for promoting the issues and drafts proposed by the party. In this setup, the members will get motivated to work for the issues of the party.
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Disciplinary Action in the Party – Full (active) membership criteria is fully defined in the party constitution. Any party member can vote against the party or support campaign for another party or even contest election against the party. The member will not be expelled or suspended for this nor any other action taken against the member except when the member publicly opposes the party agenda-constitution or constitution. If the member publicly opposes the party agenda-constitution or party constitution or files false case in court/police or any government body, the member can be expelled.
Party Structure – Party will have one National President and National Committee and President and comittee at every level. There will be a National Cabinet only at the National level. Two third members of the National Committee will be elected by the active Party members while the rest will be appointed by the President.
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Party merger, split and dissolution – Two-third majority active members of the party can vote and dissolve, split or merge the party. The party will adhere to all mandatory provisions under Section 29 A (5) of RP Act.,1951
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Party Donation and Expenditure – All the expenses of the party will be put on party website with details. The Party funds will not be used to buy any land or buildings or for any personal purposes. Longest rental contract will be 3 years.
Party will not give any tax exemption certificate to donor. The Party wants that the donor first give due tax to the government and then only donate to the party. Because the tax money is for benefit of all citizens. In this way, only clean donors will donate to the Party.
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Recall / Replacement of Party Post holders – President and Committee members at any level can be recalled / replaced at any time provided that compensation be given to the person being replaced. Because the party believes that the nation or government is creation of all citizens and not a few individuals. But a private company or a Political Party is not creation of all citizens. A political party is a creation of labor of the founders, the voters who voted for candidate or the manifesto, and then new candidates who joined that party. As an exception, the first Party president can be recalled only after completion of one year.
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Party Candidature Criteria – For becoming Party candidate for any area, an active member of the Party has to gather and display minimum number of Voter number supports of that area for the person and for Party agenda. If an active member has gathered and displayed on Party website at least 0.4% Voter number supports of total number of voters of a loksabha constituency for himself / herself as election candidates of that area, and has gathered and displayed on FB or website on excel sheet format at least 0.4% Voter number supports of total number of voters of that area for law-drafts supported by the party, then that member will be registered as a Probable candidate. The Party members will choose the Party candidate of that area from the Probable candidates via voting.
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Besides these criteria, after an election ends, if any active Party member has certain number of Contribution Points, then he can apply for `Permenant Candidate` or `Candidate for Next Election` of that area. He / she can be declared `Permenant Candidate` or `Candidate for Next Election` provided that at any time, no other active party member has 10% more supports than this member.
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The Party shall, within a period of five years of its registration, endeavor to contest at least one election conducted by Election Commission of India and shall continue to do so thereafter.
For full constitution, see – brvp.org/vikalp-constitution