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The relationship between ends and means assumes added significance in the present period of rapid socio-economic and political changes. The present world situation has to some extent become unpredictable and insecure. Politics in the modern world has virtually degenerated into a game whose governing rules are cunning and craft, expediency and unscrupulousness. End is considered as a matter of supreme consideration and no attention is paid to the choice of appropriate means for the attainment of the end. It is felt that if the end is noble, it justifies application of any means, however ignoble. When such a principle is accepted as the governing rule of public conduct or statecraft, politics becomes immoral. In such a scenario, ends (results) and sanctity of actions to attain those ends (means) cannot be ignored.