Manipur, April 28 -- All those who exercise power over others must be spiritual, not just religious in the ordinary sense of the term, by manifesting, more or less the divine within, by which they will use that power, for the good of the people, to serve the people. Whatever be the development of a nation, it cannot be great if character does not develop. We must become great people in a great nation and not remain small people in a great nation. Despite the best intentions of the drafters of the Constitution and the Members of Parliament at the onset of the Indian Republic, the fear of a nexus between crime and politics was widely expressed from the first general election itself in 1952.

In fact, as far back as in 1922,CRajagopalachari ...