LOK SABHA ELECTION

Summary

This four-page English campaign leaflet appeals to voters in Bombay-South to support Ratansinh Rajda, identified as the Janata Party candidate for the 16 March 1977 Lok Sabha election. The cover presents Rajda as a High Court advocate and uses the Janata Party symbol throughout the leaflet. The campaign frames the election as an opportunity to join a wider movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan and Morarji Desai.

Key points

• The leaflet promotes Ratansinh Rajda as the Janata Party candidate in the Bombay-South constituency.
• It presents the election as part of a broader movement led by Jayaprakash Narayan and Morarji Desai.
• Its stated priorities include saving democracy, maintaining a free press, and ensuring an independent judiciary.
• It calls for a practical economic policy and sincere implementation.
• It advocates decentralising economic and political power.
• It links its vision of a free, fearless, and just society to the path of Mahatma Gandhi.
• A separate list of constituency-facing promises includes freedom of religion, action toward full independence, students’ leave during college days, municipal council elections for the last nine years, worker-oriented social development, better conditions for working people, and opposition to the Emergency declaration.