1. The object of the ASP is to maintain and preserve the status of India as a sovereign, socialist, secular & democratic republic. To secure to all its citizens in actual terms JUSTICE, social, economic and political;
   LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;
   EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
   and to promote amongst them all
   FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation.
2. To promote world peace, international understanding, world order with justice & humanism and friendly relations with all the countries of the world by following the principles of live & let live, peaceful co-existence, mutual respect to each others territorial integrity, non interference in the internal affairs, non aggression and promotion of trade, cultural, economic & educational relations.
3. Striving and cooperating with the rest of the world towards prevention and elimination of world terrorism and drug trafficking.
4. To evolve India as a true nation with true human spirit and thus create a prosperous and strong nation.

(b)     The policies, aims and objectives it seeks to Pursue

• Political criminalisation and political corruption and casteism are major evils plaguing the society. ASP will fight against these evils vigorously and will endeavour to unearth the black money in the economy and prosecute the money swindlers

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• The ASP pledges to raise public spending in education to at least 6% of GDP with at least half of this amount being spent in primary and secondary schools. A cess will he proposed on all central taxes to finance the commitment to universalize access to quality basic education. A National Commission on Education will be set up to allocate resources and monitor programmes for compliance with national priorities.
• The ASP will ensure that all institutions of higher learning in science, technology, social sciences and management will retain the sense of autonomy that they have enjoyed in previous regimes. Academic excellence and professional competence would be the sole criteria for all appointments to bodies like the ICHR, ICSSR, UGC, NCERT etc.
• The ASP will ensure that nobody is denied education, including in institutions of excellence, because he or she is poor. Apart from increasing the supply of loan scholarships and refinance through banks, it will also establish a Education Development Finance Company along the lines of HDFC to provide loans at affordable rates to all those who cannot afford the costs of college and university education in science, engineering and medicine. Education at all stages would be free in all respects for boys and girls belonging to dalit and adivasi communities.
• A national cooked nutritious mid-day meal scheme will be introduced in primary and secondary schools across the country. The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) will be universalized to provide for a functional anganwadi in every settlement and full coverage, especially children below age of six.
• The ASP will raise public spending on health to at least 2-3% of GDP, with the focus on primary health care over the next five years and to around 5% of GDP over the next decade. The welfare of the Disabled in all respects will receive urgent attention.
• Some state governments administered by the ASP have introduced innovative health insurance programmes. A national scheme of health insurance for families living below the poverty line will be proposed.
• The ASP will introduce a new community anchored health worker scheme and implement it with the involvement of people’s organizations and panchayati raj institutions.

• The ASP believes in affirmative action for all religious and linguistic minorities. The ASP will provide for reservations for Muslims in government employment and education on the grounds that they are a socially and educationally backward class. The ASP is committed to adopting this policy for socially and educationally backward sections among Muslims and other religious minorities on a national scale. The ASP also pledges to extend reservations for the economically deprived persons belonging to communities that are at present not entitled to such reservations.
• The ASP will adopt all possible measures to promote and maintain communal peace and harmony, especially in sensitive areas. It will enact a comprehensive law on social violence in all its forms and manifestations, providing for investigations by a central agency, prosecution by Special Courts and payment of uniform compensation for loss of life, honour and property.
• The ASP commits itself to amending the Constitution to establish a Commission for Minority Educational Institutions that will provide direct affiliation for minority professional institutions to central universities. Special steps will be taken to spread modern and technical education among women in minority communities particularly.
• New middle-level technical institutions will be started in places where for example, weavers and artisans are concentrated. The National Minorities Development Corporation and State Minorities Development Corporations will be made direct-lending institutions.
• ASP will provide them reservation in govt services as OBC and earmark 7% for them.
• Special component plan for minorities will be formulated for those 90 districts and 300 blocks where Muslim population is concentrated and funds as percentage of population will be positively spent over their schemes.
• Free education to all girls at all levels will be provided.
• Scholarship to all Muslim children upto 8th standard will be provided.
• Free coaching cum guidance centres will be opened for them.
• Skill development training and support will be provided to all Muslim girls.
• Loans at cheaper rates without collateral will be provided for self employment purposes
• Travel expenses for foreign countries will be provided for participants exhibitions abroad.

• Earmarking of funds under SCSP/TSP from the Central Ministry/Department Plan outlay at least in the proportion of SC and ST population to the total population of the country. Non earmarking of funds under SCSP and TSP may result in non approval of Plans of the Central Ministries/Departments.
• SCSP and TSP funds should be non divertible.
• A dedicated unit may be constituted in every Central Ministry/Department for the welfare and development of the SCs and STs as nodal unit for the formulation and implementation of SCSP and TSP.
• The nodal dedicated unit should be responsible for ensuring that the funds will be allocated to the sectoral units in the departments to implement schemes directly relevant to the SC and ST development.
• Placing the funds earmarked for SCSP/TSP under separate budget head/sub head for each central ministry/department for implementing SCSP/STP. In this account it may be mentioned that the major and minor heads of accounts of union and states as issued by the comptroller General of accounts provided that TSP and SCSP may be opened as Minor Head below the functional Major Head/Sub Major Head wherever necessary.

• Only those schemes should be included under SCSP/TSP that ensure direct benefits to individuals or families belonging to the SC or the ST
• Outlay for area oriented schemes directly benefiting SC hamlet/ villages having a majority of SC population/tribal hamlets and villages shall be included in SCSP and STP.
• Among the various programmes for the benefit of the SC and ST priority should be given for providing basic minimum services like primary education, health, drinking water, nutrition, rural housing, rural electrification and rural link road.
• Schemes to develop agriculture and allied services like irrigation, animal husbandry, dairy development, vocational training etc that provide a source of livelihood to the SC and ST should be included.
• Innovative projects that draw upon institutional finance to supplement plan allocations may be drawn up.

• The ASP pledges to press for the Constitutional Amendment to reserve one-third of seats in the Lok Sabha and in Vidhan Sabhas for women.
• It will launch a movement for the effective implementation of social legislation such as for minimum age at marriage, anti-dowry, curbing atrocities on women, anti-sati, widow welfare, etc. as well as for minimum wages for enhancing women’s welfare. Stern measures will be taken to ensure the elimination of female foeticide and infanticide. Marriage registration will be made mandatory.
• 30% of all funds flowing into panchayats and nagarpalikas will be earmarked for programmes relating to the development of women and children and focus on the special needs of female agricultural labour and women cultivators. Village women and their associations will be empowered to assume responsibility for all development schemes relating to drinking water supply, sanitation, primary education and health, nutrition, biogas, maintenance of water pumps and bore wells and farm forestry.
• Complete legal equality for women in all spheres will be made a practical reality, especially by removing discriminatory legislation, by giving them equal share in matrimonial property, by protecting their rights to matrimonial homes and ‘streedhan’, by giving them equal rights of ownership of assets like houses-and land, etc. All states will be encouraged to set up family courts at the earliest.
• There will be a major expansion in schemes for micro-finance based on self-help groups, especially for tribal women, women belonging to scheduled castes, women below the poverty line, rural women and women in distress, and particularly in the backward and ecologically sensitive regions and actively encourage the functioning of producer and marketing cooperatives.
• Some states of India, particularly in the South, have already reached replacement levels of fertility while other states will do so over this decade. But on present reckoning, four-five states of India will be unable to reach this crucial milestone for decades. The Congress will take the lead in replicating the success of other states in those states where population growth continues unabated. Population planning is not just a government programme but must become a movement of civil society as well. A sharply targeted mobilization effort will be mounted in the 150-odd districts that still have unacceptably high levels of fertility.

• Purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire and maintain, moveable or immoveable property for the party and invest and deal with monies of party in such manner as may from time to time be determined;
• Raise money with or without security for carrying out any of the aims and objectives of the party;
• To do all other lawful things and acts as incidental or conducive to the attainment of any of the aforesaid aims and objectives,

Primary committees

Note: For the purpose of this constitution the word 'State' includes 'Union Territory

1. The National Executive and the Executives at the State and lower levels may co-opt up to 10 % of the total number of members of the National Council, State and other lower Councils concerned, as members of the respective Council.

2. A co-opted member of the National Council and the Councils at the State and lower levels shall not exercise any voting right in any organisational election nor shall he contest any election in the organisation. However, no person who is a co-opted member shall be debarred for that reason, from seeking election to full membership of any committee in the normal manner.

1)To carry out the policies and programmes laid down by the party and the National Council, the President shall be assisted by a Central Secretariat which shall consist of such number of General Secretaries, Secretaries and other such officials as may be appointed by him. The President/ Treasurer/ General Secretary shall be in charge of funds and shall keep proper accounts of all investments, incomes and expenditures with the assistance of the Secretariat.

2)All monies received for the party and the central organization of the party shall be deposited in an account in a nationalized bank in the name of the party and such account shall be operated jointly by either the National President or the National Vice President or by an office bearer of the Central Executive Committee duly authorized by the National President in this behalf.

3)Provided that a sum of money required for the day to day and emergent expenditures shall be kept at the disposal of the Treasurer/ General Secretary of the Party

b) Members of the National Council shall have to contest election from their respective States.

c) The National Council 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 units.

d) The National Council shall meet as often as required by the National Executive, by not less than 20% of the total number of National Council member having full voting right. Such a requisition shall specify the purpose for which the requisitionists desire a meeting of the National Council.
e) A requisitioned meeting shall be held within one month 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 National Executive for consideration.
f) Not less than 1/5th of the total number of members shall form the quorum for a meeting of the National Council.