If we compare the society with a water reservoir, the topmost layer is active and due to that only it is at the top. The bottom layers are calm, and are at bottom because they are willing to be there only. In the nations like India, the politics is taken very lightly because the politicians are willing to go up words any how and for that no special skill or contribution is needed. This attitude has been developed a thumb rule that those who want to contribute should avoid politics or those who want to be in the politics should avoid contribution. Engineers are the real active contributors for the society, and any society is graded as how much it is engineered. For nations like India, many of the few toppers are engineers but the rest bottom level will take time to be an engineered society, as ours is a young nation and by nature we are not aggressive. Till then our politics will be almost without engineers. Another thing is majority of the engineers is employed and involved in manufacturing and soft wares, which have a very limited contact with the people, so as the contact is less, the influence is also less and politics starts from the doors of sociology. This may be the another reason for the Engineers not to involve in politics.