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Decisive vote of confidence in Indira: Masani
TIMES OF INDIA · 1971
1 pages
Summary
This one-page Times of India report, dated 12 March 1971, records M. R. Masani’s response to the election verdict. Masani, president of the Swatantra Party, said the electorate had given Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her party a decisive vote of confidence, and that democrats should accept the verdict and its implications.
Masani stated that the Swatantra Party had not accepted the slogan “Indira Hatao,” but that the electorate had now rejected it. He said the party’s central parliamentary board would meet in New Delhi on 20 March to consider the implications of the popular verdict and decide the party’s attitude toward the new government and the other opposition parties.
Key points
- M. R. Masani is identified as president of the Swatantra Party.
- Masani interpreted the election result as a decisive vote of confidence in Indira Gandhi and her party.
- He said democrats should accept the electorate’s verdict and its implications.
- The Swatantra Party had not accepted the slogan “Indira Hatao.”
- Masani acknowledged that the electorate had rejected that slogan.
- The party’s central parliamentary board was scheduled to meet in New Delhi on 20 March.
- That meeting would determine the party’s response to the new government and the opposition parties.
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