When the policies are implemented their outcome reflects the outcome of a long process of battle of ideas, play of politics, people’s response to policies, a complicated process of constitutional and bureaucratic decisions and the interpretation by the local functionaries. Lastly, the outcome of the interventions depends a lot on governance. You may have lots of good policies but if administration is working in self-interest and using political and administrative power in its own interest (due to corruption) then even the best political ideologies will fail to deliver. Finally, there is often a conflict between traditional values and the organization values. As members of a political party the politicians too are not free from this conflict. As a politician or a bureaucrat one is expected to be objective, go according to written rules, serve the interest of the organization or people, and act in a dispassionate manner. However, as a member of a family, kinship, caste, community and region he is expected to serve the particularistic interests. Then he has the conflict. What he will do is an existential question.
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