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CONSTITUTION
OF
THE
HINDUSTAN
REPUBLICAN
ASSOCIATION*
Qualifications
of a
District
Organiser
1.
He
must
have
the
tact
and
the
ability
to
guide
and
handle
men
of
different
temperaments.
2. He
must
have
the
capacity
to
grasp
political,
social
and
economical
problems
of
the
present
day
with
special
reference
to
his
motherland.
3. He
must
be
able
to
grasp
the
spirit
of
the
history
of
India,
with
special
reference
to
the
particular
civilisation
which
India
has
evolved.
4. He
must
have
faith
in
the
mission
and
the
destiny
of a
free
India,
which
is to
bring
harmony
in
the
different
spheres
of
human
activities,
both
spiritual
and
material.
5. He
must
be
courageous
and
self-sacrificing
without
which
all
his
brilliant
qualities
will
have
no
real
value.
Provincial
Council
and
Central
Council
PC
and
CC
members
must
see
that
every
member
of
this
association
gets
full
scope
and
ample
opportunity
to
develop
and
use
his
individual
abilities,
without
which
the
association
will
tend
to
disintegrate.
PROGRAMME
All
the
activities
of
the
association
shall
be
divided
into
two
parts:
public
and
private.
Public:
1. To
start
association
in
the
forms
of
clubs,
libraries,
seva
samitis
and
the
like.
2. To
start
labour
and
peasant
organisations.
Suitable
men
must
be
engaged
on
behalf
of
the
association
to
organize
an
control
the
labourers
in
the
different
factories,
the
railways
and
in
the
coalfields,
and
instil
into
their
minds
that
they
are
not
for
the
revolution
but
that
the
revolution
is
for
them.
Similarly
the
Kisans
must
also
be
organized
3. To
start
weekly
paper
in
every
province
to
propagate
the
idea
of an
independent
Indian
Republic.
4. To
publish
booklets
and
pamphlets
with
a
view
to
enlighten
public
as to
the
course
of
events
and
the
current
of
thoughts
as
prevalent
in
the
countries
outside
India.
5. To
utilise
and
influence
the
Congress
and
other
public
activities
as
far
as
possible.
Private:
(a)
To
establish
a
secret
press
and
through
it to
publish
such
literature
which
cannot
easily
be
published
openly.
(b)
To
circulate
such
literature.
(c)
To
establish
branches
of
this
association
in
every
part
of
the
country,
district
by
district.
(d)
To
collect
funds
in as
many
ways
as
possible.
(e)
To
send
suitable
men
to
foreign
countries
where
they
may
get
military
or
scientific
training
so
that
they
may
become
military
or
scientific
experts
to
take
charge
of
armies
and
ammunition
factories
at
the
time
of
open
rebellion.
(f)
To
import
arms
and
ammunitions
and
also
to
manufacture
them,
as
far
as
possible,
in
the
country.
(g)
To
remain
in
close
touch
and
to
cooperate
with
the
Indian
revolutionaries
outside
India.
(h)
To
get
the
members
of
the
association
enlisted
into
the
present
army.
(i)
To
enlist
the
sympathy
of
the
public
to
our
cause
by
occasional
retaliatory
measures
and
propaganda
and
thus
create
a
band
of
sympathisers.
MEMBERSHIP
All
members
shall
be
recruited
by
organisers
in
charge
of
different
districts
in
every
province.
Every
member
must
be
ready
to
devote
his
whole
time
for
the
association
and
to
risk
his
life
if
necessary.
He
must
obey
the
commands
of
the
district
organiser
implicitly.
He
should
develop
his
own
initiative
and
remember
that
the
success
of
the
association
depends
much
on
the
resourcefulness,
the
initiative
and
the
sense
of
duty
of
its
individual
members.
He
must
behave
in a
manner
that
may
not
prejudice
the
cause
for
which
his
association
stands
or
may
not
do
any
harm
directly
or
indirectly
to
his
organisation.
No
member
of
this
association
shall
belong
to
any
other
organisation
without
the
consent
of
the
district
organiser.
No
member
shall
leave
his
station
without
informing
the
district
organiser
about
it.
Every
member
must
try
to
avoid
being
suspected
of
evolutionary
connections
by
the
police
or
public.
Every
member
must
remember
that
his
individual
behaviour
and
mistakes
might
lead
to
the
ruin
of
the
whole
organisation.
No
member
shall
conceal
anything
from
the
district
organiser
as
far
as
his
public
life
is
concerned.
Members
who
will
betray
shall
be
punished
either
with
expulsion
or
death.
The
authority
of
punishment
shall
rest
entirely
with
the
"PC".
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