Disqualification

A person shall be disqualified from being elected as, and for being a member of an Area Council – (1) if he is unsound mind and stands so declared by a competent court or such other authority as may be recognized by the State Government; or (2) if he is not a citizen of India or has voluntarily acquired citizenship of a foreign nation or is under acknowledgement of allegiance of a foreign nation; or (3) if he has been convicted by a Court in India of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years; unless a period of five years or such less period as the State Government may allow in any particular case has elapsed since his release; (4) if having held an office under a Regional or an Area Council he has been found guilty of corruption, disloyalty or breach of an Area or a Regional Council law; unless a period of five years or such less period as the State Government may allow in any particular case, has elapsed since his becoming so disqualified; or (5) if he is an undischarged insolvent; or (6) if he is salaried Government servant or employee of a Regional of an Area Council; or (7) it he abstains himself from the majority of meetings in a year and is unable to explain such absence to the satisfaction of the Council; or (8) it he is a member of any other Area or Regional Council; or (9) if he has been dismissed from the service of the Government or any other local authority for misconduct unless a period of five years has elapsed from the date of such dismissal; or (10) if, and for so long as, there subsists a contract entered into by him in the course of his trade or business with the State Government for the supply of goods to or for the execution of any works undertaken by that Government.