WHEN a serving officer of the Enforcement Directorate who had been pretty active in enforcing the writ (read the will) of the government took voluntary retirement and joined politics to contest elections, I tweeted, “Joining any political party is a democratic right but a civil servant resigning to join a political party raises ethical issues. Shouldn’t there be a ‘cooling’ period prescribed as in case of joining any private entity.” This tweet caught the fancy of a large number of people, some of whom raised some more questions relating to this vexed issue of. . .
