Lok Sabha elections 2019 has quite a few former IAS and IPS officers turning to politics — some who joined after retirement and others who dumped their careers midway.
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From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
One has mixed feelings about this development. These are highly educated, talented individuals, they have practical experience of governance, some would say they will enrich politics. However, the political neutrality / impartiality on which a permcivil service is based will be weakened, undermined if officers – either post retirement, or by resigning – begin to enter electoral politics. 2. A not unrelated aside. Some of the lateral entrants who have been selected by the UPSC – the earlier proposal was an in house selection panel headed by the Cabinet Secretary – are now found to be ideologically aligned to the ruling party. One way or another, politics is permeating administration.
Congress desperately wants its chair back. For this they will support anybody to fight election for the purpose of vote cutting. But aaega to Modi hi.
One has mixed feelings about this development. These are highly educated, talented individuals, they have practical experience of governance, some would say they will enrich politics. However, the political neutrality / impartiality on which a permcivil service is based will be weakened, undermined if officers – either post retirement, or by resigning – begin to enter electoral politics. 2. A not unrelated aside. Some of the lateral entrants who have been selected by the UPSC – the earlier proposal was an in house selection panel headed by the Cabinet Secretary – are now found to be ideologically aligned to the ruling party. One way or another, politics is permeating administration.