No country for resignations
Updated On: 17 August, 2024 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Lindsay Pereira
It doesn’t make sense for government representatives or officials to quit just because they aren’t qualified to do their jobs
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I have never heard of an Indian politician use the word ‘responsibility’ in a sentence, unless it is during an election season, and they have run out of things to accuse minority communities of. Representation Pic
It’s strange when I read about politicians in foreign lands resigning on account of something bad happening in the departments they control. I recently read about a minister in Greece, for example, who resigned in the wake of a train crash that had claimed the lives of a few citizens. Why would he do such a thing, I wondered, unless he was driving the train himself? Did someone force him to, or did he act according to his own troubled conscience? Why would someone accept responsibility for a loss of lives just because they were in charge of handling the country’s railways? It felt like a movie script because I had never heard of such a thing while growing up. A politician behaving honourably? It sounded too good to be true.
It probably felt like an anomaly because it has been a decade since we had someone honourable and deserving of respect in charge of this country. Out of curiosity though, I did a quick search for ministers in Maharashtra who have resigned recently, wondering if they had suddenly begun to behave like responsible adults while no one was looking. Unsurprisingly, there was nothing. The only recent examples that popped up involved politicians resigning to join other parties. It was like an elaborate game of musical chairs, with someone in Delhi in charge of playing the music. Not one had stepped away because of failure to accomplish what they had been elected to do.
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