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Swatantra Party
Defunct Indian political party (1959–1974)
Indian political party
The Swatantra Party was an Indianclassical 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.[2]
The party had a number of distinguished leaders, most of them old Congressmen, like C.
Rajagopalachari, Minoo Masani, N.G. Ranga, Darshan Singh Pheruman,[14][15]Udham Singh Nagoke[16] and K.M. Munshi. The provocation for the formation of the party was the left turn that the Congress took at Avadi[17] and the Nagpur Resolutions.
Swatantra stood for a market-based economy and the dismantling of the "Licence Raj" although it opposed laissez-faire policies. Swatantra was not a religion-based party, unlike the Hindu nationalism of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
In 1960,
