Summary
This one-page letter, dated March 29, 1968, records Minoo Masani’s resignation from the National Executive and Central Parliamentary Board of the Swatantra Party. Masani explains that the party had supported the Independent Progressive Group in Gujarat in 1966, in exchange for a promise that Babubhai Vaidya would become the party’s candidate for the Rajya Sabha in 1968. He states that the Gujarat party leadership and the Central Parliamentary Board later honoured this arrangement, but that more than twenty legislators broke the party’s commitment by joining hands with the Congress Party to defeat Vaidya.
Key points
- Masani resigns from the Swatantra Party’s National Executive and Central Parliamentary Board.
- He attributes the resignation to the party’s failure to honour a political commitment made in Gujarat.
- The disputed commitment concerned Babubhai Vaidya’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha in 1968.
- Masani condemns Gujarat legislators who joined the Congress Party to defeat the Swatantra candidate.
- He describes the episode as evidence of political demoralisation and declining faith in the party.
- Masani presents his resignation as an act of atonement and personal responsibility.
- Despite resigning, he promises continued support to N. Dandekar in maintaining party discipline and effective functioning.
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