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I want an India where talent and energy can find scope for play without having to cringe and obtain special individual permission from officials and ministers, and where their effort will be judged by the open market in India and abroad.
- C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji)
Independent India was extremely fortunate to have votaries of freedom like Rajaji and many others, including Minoo Masani. Because of men like them, India remained a liberal democracy despite the strong socialist leanings of Nehru. Rajaji and Masani are remembered today as founders of the Swatantra Party, India’s first liberal party, formed in 1959 to oppose Nehru’s socialist policies. This year [2009] marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of Swatantra Party. It is a good time for all of us to ponder over what India could have been with a liberal party at its helm, and to light the flame of liberty once again.
The Swatantra Party was to become India’s largest opposition party with 44 seats in the 1967 Lok Sabha. But it finally dissolved in 1974 – about an year after Rajaji’s death in December 1972. Col. H.R. Pasricha analysed its rise and fall in a book, The Swatantra Party – Victory in Defeat, published posthumously by The Rajaji Foundation in 2002.
(My editorial in Towards a Great India, 15 September 2009)
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