New Delhi, Dec 24: Politicians across the board should remember that “ingratitude is a political sin” and instructions taken by any officer needs to be protected rather than being made an instrument during “political slugfest”, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said.
The Minister was replying to a question by former Intelligence Bureau officer Rajender Kumar who was at the centre of a controversy in the alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jehan, alleged terror operative, and her friends in Gujarat in 2004.
After the speech of Jaitley at the Endowment Lecture of Intelligence Bureau, Kumar asked Jaitley whether the government should refrain from targeting officers who take bonafide decision while performing their duty.
He said the principle applies across the board for all politicians irrespective whether they are in power or in opposition that “some institutions and their functioning has to be protected”.
“And if I put it in one sentence, ingratitude is a political sin,” he said.
The Union Minister also cautioned that officers performing their duties should not become an instrument of political slug fest.
