Published by the Swatantra Party in 1963, the Swatantra Alternative to the Third Plan is a pamphlet comprising of MR Masani and Professor NG Ranga’s Lok Sabha’s speeches during the course of discussion on the mid-term appraisal of the Third Plan in the Parliament on December 5, 1963. In addition to the speeches, the pamphlet contains the substitution motion moved by the Party in August 1960 opposing the Third Five Year Plan. It lay down alternatives to the path that the country took under the Third Plan, arguing that the Plan led India towards economic chaos and political disaster.