periodical issue
Swatantra Newsletter
ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL OFFICE OF THE SWATANTRA PARTY, 143 MAHATMA GANDHI ROAD, FORT, BOMBAY. TELEPHONE NO : 28887 · Bombay · 1963
12 pages
Summary
Swatantra Newsletter No. 32, issued in Bombay in March 1963 for private circulation, reports the party’s February meetings of its Central Organising Committee and General Council, including resolutions on the Chinese attack, the Colombo proposals, the continuation of the emergency, taxation, and internal Bihar organisation. It also reproduces press commentary, party reports from Bombay, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, and Rajasthan, and extracts from speeches by Rajaji, Prof. N. G. Ranga, Maharani Gayatri Devi, and Dayabhai V. Patel.
The issue’s argumentative center is a Swatantra Party critique of the Congress government’s economic controls and foreign-policy choices. Gold control, taxation, planning, unemployment, land and cooperative-farming policies, and the suspension or circumvention of ordinary democratic procedures are presented as threats to property, livelihood, and constitutional government. On foreign policy, the newsletter argues for a firmer response to Communist China and greater practical cooperation with friendly Western powers, while insisting that the emergency should not become indefinite. The annexures provide the party’s General Council resolutions, newspaper extracts on Bihar, and parliamentary speeches addressing defence, civil liberties, economic policy, and the role of opposition.
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