periodical issue
Swatantra Newsletter
ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL OFFICE OF THE SWATANTRA PARTY, 143 MAHATMA GANDHI ROAD, FORT, BOMBAY. TELEPHONE NO : 28887 · Bombay · 1963
11 pages
Summary
Issue No. 31 of the Swatantra Newsletter, dated February 1963, reports the Swatantra Party’s response to the Chinese invasion, the cease-fire, and the Colombo proposals. Its central position is that India should reject any settlement that legitimises Chinese aggression, recover lost territory, seek military cooperation from democratic powers, and resist what the newsletter presents as the erosion of democratic institutions under emergency rule. Reports from Bombay, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Mysore, Punjab, Rajasthan, and West Bengal show the party organising public meetings, committees, and parliamentary opposition around these issues.
The issue also criticises the Gold Control Order, arguing that it harms small savers, artisans, jewellers, and rural economic activity while encouraging smuggling; challenges the proposed merger of the Attorney-General and Law Minister’s offices; and documents alleged abuses of emergency powers. Annexures reproduce the Parliamentary Board’s resolutions, speeches by N. G. Ranga and Dahyabhai V. Patel on the Colombo proposals, Rajaji’s case for alliance-based defence, and a Liberal International communiqué defending market institutions, economic liberalism, and liberty in the new states. The issue engages with Jawaharlal Nehru, Nikita Khrushchev, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Maoist China, the Bandung framework, and Liberal International, while also recording interventions by numerous Indian political figures.
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