periodical issue
Swatantra Newsletter
ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL OFFICE OF THE SWATANTRA PARTY, 143 MAHATMA GANDHI ROAD, FORT, BOMBAY. · Bombay · 1966
10 pages
Summary
Swatantra Newsletter No. 58, issued in Bombay in May 1966, presents the Swatantra Party’s political commentary, organisational news, policy criticisms, and state-unit reports in the run-up to the 1967 general elections. The issue announces meetings of the Party’s Central Parliamentary Board, National Executive, and General Council, while arguing that Congress rule has produced administrative failure, shortages, centralised planning, and democratic deterioration.
The newsletter combines speeches and statements by Rajaji, M. R. Masani, N. Dandekar, N. G. Ranga, and other party figures with reports from Gujarat, Bombay, Himachal Pradesh, Madras, Mysore, Orissa, and Uttar Pradesh. Its recurring alternative is a constitutional and democratic politics based on individual liberty, voluntary social action, economic reasoning, reduced state coercion, and opposition to socialism, state capitalism, and centralised planning. The concluding reproduction of Rajaji’s “Our Mission” frames the party’s work as a long-term effort to persuade citizens through reason rather than promises of state-provided benefits.
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