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You Must Apply the Rule That Shuts Her Out: Comply, Dissent or Resign?

An op-ed by ethics author Nanditesh Nilay in The Indian Express argued that officials facing a crisis of institutional trust must ask whom they serve. It drew on Gandhi's talisman and trusteeship, Sardar Patel's demand for honest advice from civil servants, Lal Bahadur Shastri's warnings on rule-bound administration and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya's antyodaya. It applied them to officials handling changes in electoral-roll rules.