When it is non-elected minister-in-charge then why not qualified one?

This has always been a matter of debate that a minister in-charge of a particular department should be an elected representative. Opinions matter from person to person. Talking about recent history of past 10 years, there has been examples when a non-elected representative have been selected as minister-in-charge for a department.  

Former prime minister of India (May 2004 - May 2014) with
Congress president Sonia Gandhi

Talking about former Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh, who was also known as the great economist and most suitable person for the prime minister post, wasn't a public elected candidate and successfully completed 2 consecutive terms. There can be multiple reasons for economic crisis but people still believe that he was best suitable person for the post. 

"we can ignore the fact that only elected candidates can be minister-in-charge for a given department. Now the question is when a non-elected candidate can be minister-in-charge then why not qualified candidates? "

10 years of tiring governance and plunging economy, Indian voters elected NDA govt in May 2014 in the hope of Ache Din and growing economy. Controversy doesn't stop here and this govt also got 2 non elected minister-in-charge.  

Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance
 (May 2014 - Till Date) 

 Arun Jaitley, who lost election from Amritsar is present finance minister who also held several key positions during past NDA government. Instead of working for key positions with Govt. of India he faces corruption and financial irregularities in DDCA scam. Some NDA party member raise voice against him alleging that he entered to Ministry of Finance through back-door as he is not an elected candidate. 

Smriti Irani, Minister of Human Resource Development
(May 2014  - Till Date) 

Next name on non-elected minister-in-charge is Smriti Irani, who is Minister of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and have been in controversy since she joined this office as minister. She is alleged of providing different education qualifications with Election Commission of India (ECI) in the declaration form. Though her final qualification is not known yet and we consider her maximum qualification wouldn't be more than graduation. Recently court has asked University of Delhi and ECI to submit documents related to her qualifications. 

Smriti Irani was defeated by UPA vice-president Rahul Gandhi where Dr. Kumar Viswas from AAP was also running from that constituency. Usually high profile candidates selects safe seat as their running constituency and win that constituency by huge margin. This safe seat is either based on other party candidates or fixing the other party candidates. This was first time when two high profile candidates fought against each other when Aam Aadmi Party challenged them to contest. After this defeat it seems like a deal was finalized at the beginning when she accepted the AAP challenge. And the deal was either loose or win this high profile election collision, you will be awarded with one ministry. 

After seeing these three examples, we can ignore the fact that only elected candidates can be minister-in-charge for a given department. Now the question is when a non-elected candidate can be minister-in-charge then why not qualified candidates? Why we have run after controversial candidates who dent that position while being in-charge of that. If we explore our country we can find 1000 of qualified and experienced people, who are ready to serve for that position. What policy does stop them? Give those power hungry people some roles where they feel powerful and assign important and policy making posts to qualified and experienced ones. 

Party leaders can argue that such people will dent party image by their acts. In case of such party-denting activities from those chosen people, party can make it clear (or warn) to them before they join the office and even-though they are found in such activities, they can be released from their post. 

Good people always do good and great leaders always lead the nation.