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Article 12 : Nationalist Congress Party State Committee :

The State Committee shall consist of :-
1. Delegates elected from the constituency/Block Committees according to the number of voters in the Assembly Constituency as hereunder :

Constituencies with a voters' strength of 50,000 and below electing one delegate and those with a voters' strength above 50,000 and upto 1,00,000 electing two delegates and those with a voters' strength of above 1,00,000 electing three members.

The constituencies that come under the three categories will be decided by the State Committee on the basis of the number of voters in the voters list of each constituency.

An Active member ordinarily residing or having his/her place of business, occupation or profession within the area of the S.C. would be eligible to be a candidate for election as deligate from any Assembly/Block Committee within the area of the said SC provided that

(a) Conditions and conduct of elections will be in accordance with the rules prescribed by the WC;

(b) In the following States and Union Territories, the number of elected members of the SC/UTC shall be equal to the number of Members of the State/Territorial Legislative Assembly:
(1) Arunachal Pradesh, (2) Goa, (3) Manipur, (4) Meghalaya, (5) Mizoram, (6) Nagaland, (7) Pondicherry, (8) Sikkim and (9) Tripura

(c) From the UTCs of Andaman Nicobar islands, Dadra- Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Chandigarh Territories, there shall be twenty five members each;

(ii) Ex-presidents of the SC who have completed a term of 365 days and who continue to be Active members;

(iii) Presidents of the District Committees provided that they shall not be eligible to become either President or
Secretary of the SC;

(iv) WC members who reside in the State;

(v) Members elected by the Legislature Party of the Nationalist Congress Party at the rate of 5% of the number of SC/UTC members subject to a maximum of 15;

(vi) Members who are co-opted by the SC from special elements not adequately represented and others in accordance with the rules prescribed by the WC.

(vii) The State Committee shall from amongst its members elect an Executive Committee consisting of 10% of the total number State Committee members in each state subject to a minimum of 21 membres including the President and other Office Bearers.

2. Every member of the SC shall pay an annual fee of Rs. 50.00 of which Rs. 25.00 shall be remitted to the WC as delegate fee and shall collect Rs. 100.00 for the Party Fund triennially within 3 months of his/her election to the SC and deposit it with it and obtain a receipt thereof;

3. He/she shall receive a certificate duly signed by a Secretary of the SC that he/she is a member and has collected Party Fund. Any member, who fails to pay subscription or collect the fund within the period stipulated, shall forfeit the right to exercise the functions of a member including the right to attend any meeting of the SC till such dues are cleared. The SC shall forward to WC Office a certified list of such Members not later than the date fixed by the WC in that behalf;

Note: The SC will decide the proportion in which the Party Fund may be distributed among Subordinate Committees of the Party.

4. Every SC shall coordinate the activities of specialised Committees and shall:

(i) Ordinarily function through the District Committees;

(ii) Subject to the general supervision and control of the WC, be in-charge of the affairs of the Party Committees within its own area and to that end frame its Constitution, not inconsistent with this Constitution, which shall come into operation only with the previous sanction of the WC;

(iii) Submit to the WC an annual report of the work done by the Nationalist Congress Party Organisation in the State including audited balance sheets;

(iv) Pay to the WC before a date to be fixed by it, the share due to it out of the members' fees vide Article 6(viii) and clause 2 above.

5. The State which has not completed the formation of the State Committee on or before the date fixed by the Working Committee, may, at the discretion of the W. C., be disentitled to be represented at the National Convention. But the W. C. may as a special case, allow the existing delegates to the National Convention from any particular State to participate in the National Convention of the Party provided that they are satisfied that the process fo election of election of new delegates cannot be completed before the National Convention.

In such cases the WC may, on the request of the concerned State/Regional or Territorial Committee, extend the time for the completion of election in that unit.

6. The WC may suspend any SC on its failure to function in terms of the Constitution or in accordance with its direction and form an adhoc committee to carry on the Party's work in State;

7. Each SC/UTC shall in accordance with the directions/guidelines issued by the WC constitute a Trust for holding immovable properties belonging to itself and also the properties belonging to other Committees, namely, District Committees, Block Committees and other Subordinate Committees. The number of trustees on the Board of Trustees of the said Trust shall not be less than 5 and not more than 9 including the Chairman and other ex-officio Trustees. The Board of Trustees shall be appointed by the SC/UTC and shall comprise of persons as approved by the WC. The President of the SC/UTC shall be the Chairman officio of the Trust. The Treasurer of the WC and General Secretary In-charge of the concerned SC/UTC Shall be ex-officio members of the Board. The term of the Board of Trustees other than the Chairman and the two ex-officio Trustees shall be three years. The properties shall be held in the name of the said Trust and if that be not possible in certain case/cases, then in such manner as directed by the WC.

Article 13 : Delegates : to the National Convention :

All members of the State Committee shall be delegates to the
National Convention of the Party.

Article 14 : Nationalist Congress Party National Committee (NCP-NC) :

1. The National Commitee of the Party shall consist of :-

(i) One tenth of the number of members of the SC elected by them from amongst themselves by proportional representation according to the system of single transferable vote, provided that the number is not less than five; however four members each shall be elected from Chandigarh, Andaman Nicobar, Dadra Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu and Lakshadweep UTCs;

(ii) President of the Nationalist Congress Party

(iii) Ex-Presidents of the Party who have completed a term of 365 days and have continued to be Active
members of the Party;

(iv) Presidents of the SCs, provided that they shall not be eligible to become office-bearers of the N.C.

(v) Leader of the Nationalist Congress Party in Parliament;

(vi) Leaders of the Nationalist Congress Party in the Legislatures and Leaders of the Councillors in Union Territories and Metropolitan Councils;

(vii) 15 members elected by the Nationalist Congress Party in parliament according to the system of single transferable vote;

(viii) Members co-opted by the WC from special elements not adequately represented and others in accordance with the rules prescribed by it;

2. (i) The President of the Nationalist Congress Party, shall be the President of the N. C.;

(ii) The NC shall arrange for the implementation of the programme of the work laid down by the Party and shall have powers to deal with matters and situations that may arise during its term of office;

(iii) The NC shall have power to frame rules, not inconsistent with this Constitution for regulating all matters connected with the Party which shall be binding on all subordinate Party Committees;

(iv) The NC shall meet as often as required by the WC but not less than twice a year, or on a joint requisition addressed to the WC by not less than 20% of the total 4 number of NC members having full voting rights. Such requisition shall specify the purpose for which the requisitionists desire a meeting of the NC. A requisitioned meeting shall be held within two months of the receipt of the requisition provided that not more than one requisition can be moved in one year. At any requisitioned meeting, additional items of business may be brought up by the WC for consideration;

(v) At all the meetings of the NC, other than requisitioned meetings, at least two hours shall be allotted for consideration of proposions of which due notice has been given by the members of the NC in accordance with the rules prescribed in that behalf;

(vi) One hundred or one-fifth of the total number of members, whichever is less, shall form the quorum for the NC meeting;

(vii) Every member of the NC shall pay an annual subscription of Rs.100/- and collect Rs. 200/- for the Party Fund within three months of his/her election to the NC and deposit it with the NC and shall obtain a receipt thereof. He/she shall receive a certificate of membership, duly signed by one of the Secretaries of the NC. Any member who fails to pay subscription or collect the fund within the period stipulated, shall forfeit the right to take part in any of the meetings of NC, Subjects Committee or any National Convention till such dues are cleared up;

Note : A member of NC need not collect fund for the SC also.

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