Swatantra Newsletter

Summary

Swatantra Newsletter No. 64, issued by the Central Office of the Swatantra Party in Bombay and dated February/July 1968, reports on the party’s central meetings, electoral performance, parliamentary positions, organisational disputes, state-unit activity, and policy arguments. The visible pages document concern over poor results in Haryana, Gujarat, Dausa, and other contests; opposition to defections and partisan control of institutions; debates over cooperation with the Jan Sangh; and resolutions concerning banking, nationalisation, state enterprises, linguistic states, and the role of governors and presiding officers.

The issue also presents the party’s liberal critique of planning, industrial licensing, public-sector expansion, bank social control, and politically affiliated trade unions. It reproduces material defending the Swatantra–Jan Sangh coalition government in Orissa, criticising Communist influence in West Bengal and Kerala, and supporting Father Vincent Ferrer’s agricultural and educational work in Manmad. Later pages report youth and state-unit activities, election petitions, voter-conveyance rules, and local electoral victories. The rendered set ends during the “News from State Units” section; the remaining fourteen PDF pages were not available for review.