press clipping
Masani not to withdraw resignation
Patriot-New Delhi · New Delhi · 1968
1 pages
Summary
This one-page newspaper clipping, published by Patriot-New Delhi on 15 May 1968, reports that Swatantra Party leader M. R. Masani had decided not to withdraw his resignation from the party’s Central Parliamentary Board and National Executive. The report says Masani communicated his final decision to the party’s general secretary, Mr. N. Dandekar, after resigning in April following a dispute over the party’s Gujarat election campaign.
Key points
- M. R. Masani declined appeals to withdraw his resignation from the Swatantra Party’s Central Parliamentary Board and National Executive.
- Masani described his decision as final in a letter to the party’s general secretary, Mr. N. Dandekar.
- He had offered to resign after the party’s Gujarat campaign, in which he objected to the withdrawal of support for a candidate sponsored by the party’s high command.
- The report says Gujarat Swatantra MLAs had set up their own candidate against the high-command nominee.
- Masani characterized the reported disciplinary action against six Swatantra members in Gujarat as an ‘eyewash’.
- He argued that the party’s executive had not taken any serious disciplinary action, such as expulsion, against the rebels.
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