[Swatantra Party Minutes of Meeting]

Summary

Dated March 22, 1968, this two-page record from the Swatantra Party Parliamentary Office reports an Executive Committee meeting held on March 21 in the Party Room of Parliament House, New Delhi. It lists eleven attendees and identifies K. M. Koushik as a special invitee. The record assigns party members to speak on legislative resolutions concerning Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the President’s proclamation in Uttar Pradesh, the Armed Forces Special Powers Constitution Bill, and a proposed ban on the left Communist Party.

The document’s principal function is parliamentary coordination. It distributes speaking responsibilities across twenty departmental demands for grants, covering portfolios from Home Affairs, Defence, and External Affairs to agriculture, education, health, planning, transport, and atomic energy. Where second and third speakers have not been specified, the party leader is authorized to select them. The document ends with the secretary’s sign-off by J. M. Lobo Prabhu.

Key points

• The Executive Committee met on March 21, 1968, at Parliament House in New Delhi.
• Eleven members attended, with K. M. Koushik present as a special invitee.
• The record assigns speakers to several parliamentary resolutions and bills.
• J. M. Lobo Prabhu was assigned to speak on the Armed Forces Special Powers Constitution Bill and the resolution concerning the left Communist Party.
• Members were assigned to speak on demands for grants across twenty government departments and policy areas.
• The party leader was given authority to choose additional speakers where second and third speakers had not been named.
• The document is an administrative record of Swatantra Party parliamentary planning rather than an argumentative essay.