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Why Today s India Needs a Resurrected Swatantra Party
The farmers protests prove that the agrarian class and small industries need a liberal party transcending religious, regional and caste identities.
Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Politics17/Jan/2021
The Swatantra Party was a rainbow-like phenomenon in Indian politics: bright and beautiful; yet short lived. It represented different socio-economic classes, and interests across both business and agriculture. It had an elitist complexion, yet had large numbers of peasantry in its ranks.
The party played a conspicuous role in Indian politics from 1959 to 1974. It posed an ideological alternative to the dominant Congress party’s statism under the guise of a ‘socialistic pattern of society’. The Swatantra Party floated the idea of Gandhian liberalism, against the Congress’s Nehruvian socialism. Its leaders stood for occupational politics ....

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