I recently read an article by Ashok Prasad at: http://thehoot.org/web/Letting-him-off-the-hook/6401-1-1-14-true.html
He writes: May I remind everyone that in Israel following Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's murder, the Israeli Labor party offered his widow Leah a lateral entry to politics and the government offered her and her family life long state security. She refused both stating that the fact her husband had been allowed to serve the people of Israel was honor enough for her and that she did not want to be a burden to the state preferring to be a private citizen-and a true private citizen who could give our politicians a lesson or two on how to be one! I think this is appropriate in the context of politics in India. Best regards, U. G. Barad.
