periodical issue
SWATANTRA NEWSLETTER NO.1.
Madras · 1959
10 pages
Summary
Dated 15 October 1959, this first monthly Swatantra Party newsletter reports the rapid creation of provincial, district, and city organisations across India. Its organisational sections describe mergers with other parties, membership and donation drives, conventions, local committees, printing arrangements for English, Hindi, and regional-language membership materials, and efforts to build support among agriculturists, merchants, workers, and Christian communities. The issue also records the party’s early international publicity, including a resolution from Liberal International welcoming its formation.
The latter pages present political arguments against Congress economic policy and centralised planning. Sir Homi Mody defends independent economists, individual initiative, and competitive enterprise; C. Rajagopalachari answers Jawaharlal Nehru’s criticism by arguing that state expansion, joint cooperative farming, land ceilings, bureaucratic control, and party centralisation threaten production, liberty, and constitutional government. A final report by Prof. M. Ruthnaswamy describes his organising tour through northern and eastern India.
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