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The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari [ 13 ] in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru -dominated Indian National Congress 's increasingly socialist and statist outlook.
He was the founding president of the Swatantra Party, and an exponent of the peasant philosophy. [2] He received the Padma Vibhushan award for his contributions to the Peasant Movement . N.G. Ranga served in the Indian Parliament for six decades, from 1930 to 1991.
The dissident parties formed an alliance called the National Democratic Front and fought against the Indian National Congress led by Indira Gandhi in the 1971 Indian general elections. [141] [142] However, the alliance fared badly. [143] The Swatantra Party's tally was reduced to 8 seats from 23 in the 1967 elections.
In 1959, Munshi separated from the Nehru-dominated (socialist) Congress Party and started the Akhand Hindustan movement. He believed in a strong opposition, so along with Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, he founded the Swatantra Party, which was right-wing in its politics, pro-business, pro-free market economy and private property rights. The party ...
The party was allowed to call itself the Indian National Congress without any suffix and the EC also restored the frozen Congress symbol of two bullocks to it. But, Indira Gandhi's supporters preferred the “Calf and Cow” symbol it had adopted after the 1969 split and dropped the suffix “R”..
When Swatantra Party faded away in 1974, Raju, along with Geeta Doctor, took up full-time editorship of Freedom First in 1978. The Freedom First magazine had been started in 1953 by the Indian Committee for Cultural Freedom, which was established by Minoo Masani in Mumbai. Raju raised funds for its continuation in print, and funds for ...
Pages in category "Swatantra Party politicians" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 1950 he founded 'Freedom First', a monthly magazine in cause of liberal policy and politics. [12] He went back to electoral politics and got elected to Loksabha in 1957 from Ranchi as an independent candidate. In 1959 he founded Swatantra Party along with C Rajagopalachari. He won a by election from Rajkot as a Swatantra party candidate.