for this failure on Prime Minister Nehru: "Though personally irreproachable, as Prime Minister he [Nehru] bore an immediate responsibility for a clean administration, more especially at the political level which alone could set an example for the administrative elites to emulate. It was precisely here that he failed!' Nehru having acquiesced in the Pratap Singh Kairon syndrome, the way was clear in the future for the Jagannath Misras, Bansi and Bhajan Lals, Gundu Raos, and Antulays.