[Letter to Mr S R Tracy]

Summary

This two-page office letter, dated March 29, 1976, is addressed to the Regional Transport Officer in Bombay and marked for the attention of Mr. S. K. Tracy. V. P. Bhatia, signing as Executive Secretary of the Bharatiya Lok Dal, confirms a prior conversation and supplies details of vehicles purchased by the former Swatantra Party, which had merged into the Bharatiya Lok Dal.

The letter lists 25 vehicles registered in January 1971 and dispatched from Mahindra & Mahindra works to destinations including Gujarat, Mysore, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan. It states that registration charges and wheel taxes were collected at the factory, that the vehicles were sold in the areas to which they were sent, and requests corrections to the transport records and cancellation of notices issued against them. A copy was sent to M. R. Masani in reference to his letter of March 17, 1976.

Key points

• The letter is dated March 29, 1976, and was issued from the Bharatiya Lok Dal office in Bombay.
• V. P. Bhatia writes to the Regional Transport Officer for the attention of Mr. S. K. Tracy.
• It documents 25 vehicles purchased by the former Swatantra Party and registered under various individuals’ names.
• The vehicles were registered in January 1971 and dispatched from Mahindra & Mahindra works to several Indian states.
• The letter states that registration charges and wheel taxes were collected at the Mahindra & Mahindra factory.
• It says the vehicles were sold in the regions to which they were dispatched and did not return to Bombay.
• The writer asks that transport records be corrected and notices against the vehicles be treated as cancelled.