ISKCON Inc

Process of Adopting ISKCON Constitution

An ISKCON Constitution, as desired by Srila Prabhupada and based on his Direction of Management is sought to be adopted by wide participation, which would finally govern the duties, roles, qualifications, powers, rights of each individual and manager (GBC, Presidents, Sanyasis, preachers etc.) in the Society. GBC of ISKCON, Inc. can then govern based on this Constitution, make detail rules/policies based on this constitution only. All dispute resolutions would be based on this Constitution.

The process of drafting the Constitution that is being proposed is:

    1. ISKCON, Inc., with advice from affiliates, will appoint a Constitution Coordination Team (“CCT”) from around the world taking into consideration that wide possible participation and respectability is needed of this Team. Hence it is envisaged that 1 Coordinator each be appointed from Russia, India, USA, China, Europe, South America, Oceania, Africa etc., from among those who are respected sober Prabhupadanugas.
    2. These Coordinators in turn will oversee a forum on ISKCON Constitution website where each section to be included in the draft would be put up for discussion openly and transparently. Various research-oriented devotees would be encouraged to participate as well as anybody who can soberly put forward points based on experiences gotten from wide spectrum of devotees worldwide – from all regions, all races, all ages, all viewpoints. Then the Coordinators will vote to include these conclusions thus being arrived at by discussions.
    3. A draft thus arrived to by the CCT will be sent to individual affiliates to be adopted. The center heads/presidents will put the draft to vote among their members. With a ¾ of the vote constitution would be considered adopted by the individual affiliates. An affiliate can send in a no vote with suggestions to change certain clauses. If 90% of the affiliates send in a Yes vote, the constitution would be considered adopted otherwise it would go through the same process again, but this time the discussion would be constrained to those clauses objected to.
    4. A Constitution thus voluntarily adopted will come into effect and will be applied by all affiliates all over the world. Affiliates will then become formal members of ISKCON, Inc.
    5. A GBC would then be elected based on the newly adopted constitution.
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