[Letter About Meeting of Maharashtra State Council]

Summary

This single-page circular from the Swatantra Party’s Maharashtra state office, dated 20 April 1977 and signed by General Secretary Girish Munshi, convenes a meeting of the Maharashtra State Council at the party office in Bombay’s Sassoon Building on Wednesday, 27 April 1977 at 6 p.m. Its stated purpose is to ratify decisions already taken by the National Executive at its meeting in Madras on 17 April 1977.

The agenda distributed to members lists three items: formation of the Rajaji Trust, a merger with the Janata Party, and any other matter admitted at the discretion of the Chair. The document is a routine notice of meeting rather than a substantive argument, but its two substantive agenda points capture a decisive moment in the party’s late institutional history — the Swatantra Party’s absorption into the post-Emergency Janata coalition, alongside a memorial vehicle named after its founding figure, C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji).

Key points

• Notice of a meeting of the Maharashtra State Council of the Swatantra Party, called for Wednesday 27 April 1977 at 6 p.m. at the Party Office.
• Purpose of the meeting: to ratify decisions already taken by the party’s National Executive at its Madras meeting on 17 April 1977.
• Agenda item 1: formation of the Rajaji Trust, a vehicle named for the party’s founder C. Rajagopalachari.
• Agenda item 2: merger of the Swatantra Party with the Janata Party.
• Agenda item 3: any other matter admitted with the permission of the Chair.
• Issued on Swatantra Party, Maharashtra letterhead from Sassoon Building, 143 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay-400 023, telephone 27 15 78.
• Signed by Girish Munshi as General Secretary of the Maharashtra state unit.