[Swatantra Party Minutes of Meeting]

Summary

This one-page English office record from the Swatantra Party Parliamentary Office documents a meeting held in the Committee Room of Parliament House on Tuesday, 19 November 1963. It lists 17 attendees, including Professor N. G. Ranga, M. R. Masani, Yashpal Singh, H. M. Patel, and Kapur Singh, and records Professor Ranga’s request that members pay outstanding contributions promptly. The letterhead is dated 21 November 1963, creating a two-day discrepancy with the meeting date stated in the body.

The record then assigns party members to speak on a range of parliamentary business, including supplementary demands, requisition and acquisition of property, a motion concerning Walcott’s escape, industrial-dispute legislation, gold control, the Press Council Bill, the Companies Amendment Bill, the Unit Trust of India Bill, preventive detention, income-tax amendment, slum clearance, the University Grants Commission report, the Third Plan, sugar, and food. It further decides that Professor Ranga should represent the party on the proposed Public Undertakings Committee. The meeting closes with a vote of thanks to the Chair.

Key points

• The record concerns a Swatantra Party parliamentary meeting held in New Delhi in November 1963.
• Seventeen members are listed as present.
• Professor Ranga requested prompt payment of members’ contribution arrears.
• The document assigns speakers to numerous parliamentary subjects and bills.
• The subjects include property acquisition, industrial disputes, gold control, taxation, preventive detention, and slum clearance.
• Professor Ranga was selected to represent the party on the proposed Public Undertakings Committee.
• The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to the Chair.
• The letterhead date is 21 November 1963, while the body dates the meeting to 19 November 1963.