Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Swatantra Party's tally was reduced to 8 seats from 23 in the 1967 elections. [ 144 ] [ 145 ] The decline of the Swatantra Party was also visible in the 1971 Tamil Nadu Legislative assembly elections in which it won just 19 seats down from 27 in the 1967 elections.
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.
On 21 June 2022, he announced the formation of Rastriya Swatantra Party along with a 21-member central committee. [13] [17] The party was formally registered in the Election Commission on 1 July 2022 with Rabi Lamichhane as the founding president and a bell inside a circle as its election symbol. [18]
The 1967 Indian general election polls in Tamil Nadu were held for 39 seats in the state. The result was a huge victory for Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, led by C.N. Annadurai and its ally Swatantra Party, led by C. Rajagopalachari.
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 ...
Three national parties, Communist Party of India, Indian National Congress and Swatantra Party along with the state party Utkal Congress took part in the assembly election. . Congress party emerged again as the winner by winning 40% of the seats with a vote share of 28.7
This page was last edited on 24 November 2024, at 09:34 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.