Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad’s obnoxious behaviour towards an Air India manager, eliciting countrywide popular outrage, is no isolated incident. “We the people” are supposed to be equal, but many are increasingly enabled to be more equal than others. Hence the ruckus created by a public representative, merely because of a two-hour air journey having to be conducted in ‘cattle class’! Public servants – both elected representatives and babus – are afflicted by VIP syndrome and cannot comprehend people’s trials and travails. Rightly, Modi seeks a change in the country that will drive high growth and usher in an egalitarian system.

Source: Times of India March 27, 2017 20:52 UTC