[Telegram to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

A single-page Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department telegram, filed from New Delhi and addressed to “M R MASANI SWATANTRA PARTY RAJKOT”. The body of the wire is a terse message of solidarity — “GOOD LUCK… JAIN” — evidently sent to Minoo Masani during the March 1971 general election, when Masani was contesting his Rajkot Lok Sabha seat on the Swatantra Party ticket.

Beyond the greeting itself the document carries the standard telegraph office markings (form C-3, serial number 125, the departmental “BUY NATIONAL SAVINGS CERTIFICATES” cachets, and the office receipt stamps) but no further substantive content. It functions as a piece of political correspondence rather than an essay, tract, or speech.

Key points

• Physical form: a pink Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department telegram slip, form C-3, catalogued item 125.
• Routing line reads “O 2115 AP 2470 NEW DELHI”, indicating the message was filed at a New Delhi telegraph office.
• The addressee line is “M R MASANI SWATANTRA PARTY RAJKOT” — Minoo Masani at the Swatantra Party office in Rajkot, his 1971 Lok Sabha constituency.
• The message body is only three words: “GOOD LUCK… JAIN”, a personal greeting from a sender identifying himself as “Jain”.
• The wire is dated in the context of the March 1971 general election campaign in which Masani contested (and lost) his Rajkot seat.
• No political argument, policy content, or extended prose appears on the sheet — it is a courtesy telegram, not a substantive text.