General Council Circular No. 55

Summary

Dated May 13, 1974, this one-page Swatantra Party circular announces a General Council meeting to be held in New Delhi on Sunday and Monday, June 9–10, 1974. Issued from the party’s national headquarters and signed by Vice President Madhu Mehta, the circular asks recipients to attend and confirm their participation.

The meeting’s agenda centers on the proposed new party: members are to consider its draft policies and programme and decide whether to recommend to the National Convention the dissolution of the Swatantra Party in order to create a new party with an acceptable common programme. The circular emphasizes the importance of the decisions and urges recipients to cancel other commitments if necessary to attend.

Key points

• The circular is dated May 13, 1974, and is issued by the Swatantra Party’s national headquarters.
• A General Council meeting is scheduled for June 9 and 10, 1974, at Vithalbhai Patel Bhavan, Rafi Marg, New Delhi.
• The first agenda item is consideration of the draft policies and programme of a proposed new party.
• The council is to decide whether to recommend dissolving the Swatantra Party to the party’s National Convention.
• The proposed dissolution is presented as a means of creating a new party with an acceptable common programme.
• Recipients are urged to attend despite other commitments and to provide immediate confirmation.