He was trusted as an impartial and independent participant, capable of understanding the compromises that each player in alliance can and must make. He will be greatly missed not just within the CPM and the Left, but in the wider political world
The danger that the system can be subverted increases when there are pressures to misuse the statistical system for political purposes. For example, there is a genuine fear that the exercise of preparing a National Population Register (NPR) as a prelude to Census 2021 could be subject to such misuse.
