Ministers & bureaucrats: Brothers in arms

In 1990, around 200 officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) had gathered for a conclave in Uttar Pradesh. Among them was TSR Subramanian, who would go on to become the Union cabinet secretary, India's seniormost bureaucrat. He and the others listened in stunned silence as Mulayam Singh Yadav, then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, said to them. "Why do you come and touch my feet?

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