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To presume that the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan is of any significance is naïve. That’s a bogus issue. The decay in the education system, or the ceaseless paper-leaks, is not because of the individual who sits in the ministerial cabin. India is grappling with a terrible governance deficit. The entrenched political forces today lack both sincerity of purpose and the skills required for good governance.

Does anybody believe it is foreign minister S. Jaishankar who designed India’s policy towards US or Israel? Is it because of defence minister Rajnath Singh’s frailties that India couldn’t chase the Chinese away from the encroached land in Ladakh? Is that weakling commerce minister Piyush Goyal succumbing to American pressure in the trade negotiations?

Nothing will delight the real masters more than a pawn-centric discourse. The truth, not open to dispute, is that all the powers are concentrated in the hands of the masters. Who? Who else? The duopoly of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah who control every inch of the political and administrative systems while the rest of the human resources are the nuts and bolts of the massive paraphernalia.

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So the basic concept of ministerial responsibility is not applicable to this unique regime. That the resignation of Pradhan is dominating the discourse is a political tragedy. The real concerns are far bigger and devastating. Parties are being ruthlessly broken and parliamentarians are stolen to manufacture a fake majority, as if a political mafia, not a constitutional government, is at work.

The Ram temple in Ayodhya, projected as India’s pride, is looted by insiders, not external marauders. Economic inequality has soared to unprecedented levels, leaving crores of poor struggling for survival. Unemployment and price-rise have acquired ruinous dimensions. Social fabric is in tatters.

Foreign policy is so wayward that India, celebrated for her moral authority, is seen as the closest ally of Israel, a country that........

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