Abhyasoni Prakatave’, study, think and reflect before saying anything, is what several saints in Maharashtra have advised. But politicians in the state have stunned people in recent weeks by referring to each other as dogs and pigs. It all started with Nitesh Rane, MLA and son of Union Small Industries Minister Narayan Rane, making cat calls on the stairs of the Assembly at Aaditya Thackeray, triggering a public debate on his conduct. Are the younger politicians taking a leaf from their seniors is the question being debated. Nitesh Rane is acknowledged as a good legislator, who raises several important issues of public concern in the assembly. Did he have to needlessly stoop and make cat calls? He has been also rude and insensitive when the chief minister was confined to bed following a minor surgery. “He stays at home even when he sneezes,” Rane had said irreverently.Ironically, while even Devendra Fadnavis deprecated Rane junior’s behaviour, some MLAs from the ruling alliance demanded his arrest. Narayan Rane himself saw a conspiracy against his son and family! Politics of vendetta, he fumed. The public behaviour of both more senior political leaders and younger heirs like Nitesh Rane, Aaditya Thackeray, son of the chief minister, Rohit, nephew of Sharad Pawar, Aditi, daughter of NCP MP Sunil Tatkate and Vishwajeet Kadam, son of late former minister Patangrao Kadam are under scrutiny.
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