Is it really necessary to replace bureaucracy from top to bottom on the eve of general elections in the country?What difference does it make if a secretary of a department or ministry is transferred from one place to another or DCs and Commissioners swap their positions?
In many countries of the world, the government in power whose stint in office is coming to an end under the constitution, remains in tact during elections also which are conducted by the Election Commission and no interim governments are formed for the purpose of elections. The EC, however, is given sweeping powers to conduct the polls. In this country, unfortunately, we have yet to see a strong EC in the true sense of the word. Not many moons away, a retired inspector general of police headed the EC in India. He was feared and respected by all the political parties of India as he enjoyed impeccable financial integrity and he was an administrator, par excellence. We need a chap like him.
With due deference to our honourable judges, let us admit that they have a very limited experience of general administration and it is not all necessary that a good judge would also be a good administrator. The civil service has always produced some excellent administrators with a very good financial and intellectual reputation who can be called upon to man important administrative positions in the EC.
Even a cursory glance at the details of the private assets furnished by many candidates contesting the polls reveal that they are either millionaires or billionaires. Such is the fate of the unfortunate poor people of this country, who don’t know where their next meal would come from, that they would be represented in the assemblies by persons who have least experience of the problems of the downtrodden people of this country.
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