India witnessed a bizarre example of how the country's career politicians take forward their politics and ideology (if they have any, very unlikely to be for the common good of the country and its people).

In a widely reported incident, Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) members slapped and assaulted a Samajwadi Party (SP) member for defying their leader Raj Thackeray's diktat on taking oath only in Marathi. The SP member had dared to take oath in Hindi—the national language of India. The incident wasn't an outcome of any heated altercation. Raj Thackeray had already warned the MLAs of consequences before hand.

This kind of terror politics is not new to the MNS leader. He has inherited this political hooliganism from his uncle Bal Thackeray. When Raj Thackeray separated from the Shiv Sena to found the MNS, he started a campaign against non-Marathis in Maharashtra to gain ground. MNS activists went on a rampage, damaging properties and hurting a lot of people whose only crime was that they were in that part of the country where regionalism and hooliganism is integral part of politics.

Recently, Bollywood film maker Karan Johar had to apologise to MNC chief for using Bombay instead of Mumbai in some dialogues in the film Wake Up Sid. MNS activists has disrupted screening of the film in some parts of Maharashtra.

Such is the terror of these political parties that the police finds itself in a fix when they have to arrest the leader for violating the country's law. Last year, when the MNS leader was arrested for the party's movement of assaulting North Indian students, the local people were gripped by fear of a rampage by the party's activists.

Parties such as the MNS and the Shiv Sena gain strength from the agendas focused on immediate appeasement of the locals. They promote regionalism, create riot-like situations, issue diktats for common men (as well as MLAs) and resort to violence without provocation. All that they need is some political advantage, beyond that nothing matters. To hell with India and Indians. They want only Marathis in Maharashtra. No Bihari or Uttar Pradesh ke bhaiyyas are allowed to exist in Maharashtra. Bengalis, Malayalis and Gujaratis are not welcome either.

It's really worrisome that the law of the country isn't capable of bringing such politicians to justice. They aren't held culpable for burning buildings and shops, and creating riots that claims a few lives. What difference is there between a revolting terror group that wants some parts of the country to secede from India and a political party that unabashedly promotes regionalism, assaults people from other parts of the country and even attacks elected representatives for taking oath in the national language of the country?