India, Oct. 16 -- Quitting the civil services for politics is one leap; making a success of it is another. Former IAS officer Divya Mittal, who launched her party Jan Neeti Bharat on Thursday after finding "no intent" in the system, is the latest bureaucrat to take that route.

Five others - Arvind Kejriwal, Sasikanth Senthil, Kannan Gopinathan, K Annamalai and Shah Faesal - have made similar exits, but their political journeys have taken sharply different turns.

One is a national party chief, one is a member of Parliament, one is still waiting for the Centre to process his resignation, one is building a new political movement, and one has returned to government service.

"Everything was available, but there was no intent," Mittal said o...