Criminalisation of politics and the politicisation of crime seem to have reached optimal complementarity in Uttar Pradesh (Editorial, June 6). There was no need for the district administration to seek permission from its political masters to evict squatters from government property. This itself reinforces the perception that the cult had powerful backers within the ruling party. When the government fails to fulfil its constitutional duty of enforcing the rule of law, it forfeits its right to continue in office. Unfortunately, the accountability of the rulers to the people who elected them has not achieved the status of a great moral force that can instil fear in the minds of the political class.
V.N. Mukundarajan,Thiruvananthapuram
