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Organisational Structure

The Party has well net nation-wide organizational set - up. The Party follows the principles of democratic centralism while maintaining the rights and duties of the Party members. Every Party member has the right to elect and to be elected in the different periodical elections organized at different levels of the Party. The National Congress is the highest body convened in every five years, which elects the Central Committee, Central Advisory Committee, Central Discipline Inspection Committee and Central Auditing Committee. The National Congress also approves or adopts the Party program, polices and plans. Democratically elected delegates from various committees participate in the Congress as representatives. The Central Committee, which has now 35 members and 9 alternate members, functions guided by the mandate of the Congress. The Standing Committee elected by the Central Committee, which has now 11 members, looks after the immediate affairs on behalf of the Central Committee. The Chairman is a unifying respected position and the General Secretary functions as the executive leaders of the Party.

National Council is an another central body below the National Congress, which is comprised of the central level committee and department members, centrally designated fraction secretaries, district committee secretaries and limited numbers of other nominees. The Central Committee is supported by different Departments, now 15 in numbers, and a secretariat based at the Party Headquarter. The other local Party committees are divided into nine tieres and their functions and responsibilities have been defined by the Party Constitution. These local party committees are:

• Zonal or Special Coordination Committee
  
• District Committees
  
• District Councils
  
• Constituency Coordination Committees
  
• Area Committees
  
• Branch Committees
  
• Primary Committees
  
• Party cell
  
• General Assemblies
  

All Committees, except the Zonal and Constituency Committees due to their coordinating character, are periodically elected through their regular conferences.

Party Membership:

There are two types of Party membership, i.e. general membership and organized membership. Organized members have to fulfill more stipulated criteria than the general members do and they are organized in the committees. At present there are 73,220 organized and 4,00,000 general members of the Party.