Absenteeism at the Top !!

Cabinet Meetings are no longer sacrosanct !! Or is it that the person presiding over the
Cabinet is not taken seriously ? Or, worse still, is he indifferent to such absenteeism ?
Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed his disappointment, in his usual mild
manner, at the thin attendance in the meetings of the Cabinet & of the Group of Ministers
(GoM). This phenomenon of absenteeism became increasingly noticeable after the
Presidential election.
At least four senior ministers belonging to the Congress did not attend the last four Cabinet
meetings, while a number of meetings of GoM have been postponed because its members
claimed to have "more" pressing work. Strangely, among the 'absconders' are those who were
aspirants in the Presidential election. Perhaps, understandably, they are in mourning !!