[Letter to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

A brief personal note on Swatantra Party letterhead (National Headquarters, Sassoon Building, 143, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay 1), dated 26 February 1971 and addressed to Mr. M. R. Masani at Rajkot on the eve of the 1971 general elections. The writer, signing as “Roshan,” offers Masani their best wishes for the coming contest and expresses the hope that everything will go smoothly. The note is a single paragraph of well-wishing rather than a substantive political communication, but it sits inside the Swatantra Party’s national office correspondence and documents intra-party solidarity at a moment when Masani was contesting his last Lok Sabha election.

Key points

• Typed on Swatantra Party national headquarters letterhead in Bombay, dated 26 February 1971.
• Addressed to Mr. M. R. Masani at Rajkot, where Masani was contesting the 1971 Lok Sabha election.
• Signed in ink by “Roshan” — a colleague or party worker at the national office rather than a party principal.
• Content is limited to a single sentence of good wishes for the coming elections and a hope that everything will go smoothly.
• Sits within the party’s official correspondence and reflects the close personal register of Swatantra’s national office communications with its leader.