[Swatanra Party Minutes of Meeting]

Summary

This one-page extract records decisions of the Swatantra Party’s Central Parliamentary Board at a meeting held in New Delhi on February 16; the year is not printed. The Board resolved to oppose proposed bills replacing the Bonus and Customs Ordinances, while deciding that the Monopolies Bill should be considered on its merits. It also opposed provisions of the Company Law Amendment Bill abolishing the managing-agency system, but supported provisions abolishing contributions by joint-stock companies to political parties. The extract further records the Party’s position on no-confidence motions introduced by the Communist Parties and the S.S.P.: it should not support the motions when admitted and should abstain when they came to a vote. Finally, the Board considered C. C. Desai’s request to extend the reservation of constituencies for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes for fifteen years beyond the scheduled expiry in January 1970, referring the matter to the National Executive and the Party’s Members of Parliament. No author, formal title, publisher, or year appears on the page.

Key points

• The Central Parliamentary Board decided to oppose bills replacing the Bonus and Customs Ordinances. It resolved that the Monopolies Bill should be treated on its merits. It opposed abolishing the managing-agency system through the Company Law Amendment Bill. It supported ending political contributions by joint-stock companies. It adopted a position of non-support and abstention on specified no-confidence motions.
• It referred a proposal to extend Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe constituency reservations to the National Executive and Party MPs.