That is why I never believed them. They do one or two things that are part of their basic duty and then build an entire PR campaign around it to glorify themselves as exceptionally honest officers. The objective is clear. Build an image, gain public admiration, reach more powerful positions, enter politics, become ministers or chairman of commissions and keep spreading the narrative that they are honest and educated while politicians are illiterate and corrupt. But even after entering politics, or remain in administration after successfully manufacturing the image of an “honest IAS officer” through PR, they never say that the feudal IAS and IPS system itself needs to be dismantled. They never say that police corruption survives because the IPS lobby controls and protects the structure. They never say that this lobby is damaging the country by gripping the entire system so tightly that its own officers can loot without fear of accountability. They never explain how the cadre protects and shields corrupt IAS and IPS officers so that they can continue to rule citizens instead of serving them. They never speak about how talent from other cadres is deliberately blocked and how officers from other services are prevented from reaching administrative leadership because weakening that monopoly would weaken the lobby itself. They never speak about how RTI was gradually weakened, while the same ecosystem captured institutions such as CIC, tribunals, RBI, Election Commission, CVC and CBI. The same cadre keeps appearing everywhere, controlling institutions that are supposed to hold power accountable. This is the real problem. It is not about one honest officer or one corrupt officer. It is about a cadre that protects its own, expands its control, blocks others from rising, captures institutions and preserves a system where members of the same network can shield one another. That is how ganging works. That is how accountability is destroyed. And that is how the feudal structure survives.