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Masani Firm On Resignation
Statesman, Calcutta · Calcutta · 1968
1 pages
Summary
This 15 May 1968 Statesman report states that Swatantra Party leader M. R. Masani refused appeals from the party’s central parliamentary board and national executive to withdraw his resignation. In a letter to the party’s general secretary, Masani said that his decision was final.
The report attributes Masani’s resignation to an internal Gujarat dispute: some Swatantra members backed their own candidate against the party high command’s nominee for a Rajya Sabha seat and helped that candidate win. Masani also characterized the national executive’s reported disciplinary action against those members as a mere “eyewash.”
Key points
- M. R. Masani declined appeals to withdraw his resignation from the Swatantra Party’s central parliamentary board and national executive.
- Masani stated in a letter to the party’s general secretary that his decision was final.
- He had offered to resign in early April 1968.
- The immediate dispute involved Gujarat members who backed an alternative candidate for a Rajya Sabha seat.
- Masani alleged that the reported disciplinary action against those members was merely an “eyewash.”
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