Not only does politics make strange bed-fellows, but strange people sometimes walk into the field of politics. Those who nurture a obsessive dislike for politics, unexpectedly, fall in love with it.
A case in point is the entry of Prakash Mishra, a former police officer of repute who subsequently rose to become the director general of police of Odisha. Mishra on Sunday, 24 March, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Known for his probity and proven track-record of diligence, Mishra has always shown the abhorrence for any kind of undue subjugation, let alone political subservience. However, now he has held the lotus and remains bound by certain rules of a political party where genuflection before the tops is mandatory.