The primary objective of power, particularly political power, has seldom been social service. A peep into the history of political powers of various types will convince us of that without any doubt. Political power is an intoxicant: as good as a drug is to the addict. People don’t capture power by spending billions of dollars or crores of rupees on image building and propaganda in order to render service to anyone. People ascend the rungs of political power because the heights intoxicate. Putting it in a more acceptable way, success gratifies or gives one a sense of fulfilment. The Hindu Self-actualisation is the highest goal for any individual, according to psychologist Abraham Maslow’s theory. Alexander the Great had as much right to make his conquests as Diogenes had to sneer at those conquests. Albert Einstein would have been as out of place on a Prime Minister’s chair as a Prime Minister would be in Einstein’s shoes. So, let each person gratify himself. But let
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