Rajaji was against the socialist and dynastic policies of the Congress, much as he shared a personal equation with Nehru

Delhi-based senior journalist Seetha recalls with sharp detail an article she'd written for the evening edition of a national daily during her stint in Mumbai in 1980s. March 17, 1984. The article in question was about a programme called the Leslie Sawhny Programme of Training for Democracy, set up by Minoo Masani i.e. Minocher Rustom Masani, a politician who had left e legal practice in England to join the freedom struggle and later, founded the Swatantra Party along with C Rajagopalachari and N G. Ranga. "Masani set up several bodies that addressed different issues from euthanasia to training in democracy. He realised that cadre-based parties such as the Jan Sangh and the communist parties had an advantage over others because they were able to mould members in a certain way. The Leslie Sawhny programme was set up to train young people in democratic values," says Seetha who in her involvement with the liberal movement in India often engaged with Masani and the party's secretary S V Raju.