Large segments of national life and institutions of state have increasingly been politicised in the recent past. Politicisation in itself is not wrong. Politics, in the larger sense, involves the relationship of individuals, groups, associations and institutions to the nation, defined by common goals and constitutional ideals and guardrails.

Ideally, politics makes democracy more inclusive and effective, and democracy enriches and expands politics. Democracy has gained by the progressive politicisation of large sections of society since Independence.

But politicisation of a wrong kind, of a party-political or ideological nature, sometimes revolving around a political personality, is now impairing some of the strongest institutions. It could weaken those institutions and the nation. Polit

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