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But recently Dr Manmohan Singh’s government declared that they might propose a Bill to free babus from ministers. I think my son’s ignorance has turned out to be factual knowledge. There are three distinct breeds of babus. One is the Khudde line babus. They always get unimportant posts irrespective of which government is at the helm. The second category is of the babus blessed with great manipulation skills, who always manage to get extensions in the same department, year after year. The third kind are highly political babus with no motives hidden. They rise to power with their leaders and go into hibernation with their downfall. People openly say, "Yeh afsar to Badals ka hai, Yeh Amrinder ka hai." Once some people were
seen dancing to the drum beats in a government bungalow. A passerby
asked the security guards what the celebration was all about. The
guard said, "Hamare sahib ke netaji Cabinet mantri ban gaye
hai."
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I
invited a bureaucrat friend for dinner. As he was getting off his
official car in our driveway, he met my son. I introduced my son to
the friend. "This is Mr so and so, a senior IAS officer". My
son asked him, "Uncle, which political party you belong to?"
Seeing the embarrassment on my friend’s face, I rebuked my son,
"Don’t you have the basic general knowledge that the Indian
Administrative Service is not a political post?"