This postcard, dated September 17, 1956, was sent from the Socialist Party’s Central Office in Hyderabad to Comrade Naresh Chandra Bhowmick in Calcutta. It serves as a directive for a party-building and membership campaign.

The key instructions on the card include:

  • A call to enroll 20 new members, including 5 women, to qualify for active party membership.
  • A directive to enroll a significant portion of the electorate as party members to gain clearance for the upcoming General Elections.
  • A reminder of the party’s ambitious goal to enroll 5 lakh new members within the year.
  • A deadline for submitting quotas to be eligible to elect delegates for the National Conference.

A handwritten note on the back from “Sachchidanand” encourages the continuation of a chain letter to mobilize other comrades. This document offers a unique glimpse into the grassroots organizational strategies of the Socialist Party in the 1950s.

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Gram: ESPEE
SOCIALIST PARTY
CENTRAL OFFICE
Dear Comrade,
8275
Please eurol 20 members wichuding
yourself for active membership.
Phone: 2742
3-6-19 HIMAYATNAGAR.
HYDERABAD-(DN).
Date 17-9-19 56
5 women to qualify
Please also see that your constimeney obtaing clearances
certificate for the General Elections wittront delay by
eurolling 1 12. of Un volers as party members opread
over at least 1/3 rd of the constituency. Remember, the
last date is 31st Oct.
Please note and inform everybody that only those
whore contesfoils and quota reach Central office on or before
Istitchober shall be permitted to participate in slechon
of delegat to National Conference.
pledged to enrol
Please remember that it we we are are
5 lakhs nem members within this year.

Please send your reply
and write lillers exactly
in this foren to any othe
fure comrades. Each ones
of them will again writi
to fine comradsand the
chain should contime.
yous sincerel
Sachchidanaw
OFLV
19-9.56
130-1.
CALCUTTA-5
POSTAGE
PSNDIA९पा
Com. Naresh Chandra Bhowmick.
32, Shyam Bazer Stret,
Caleulla-5.