During the Question Hour, Parrikar raised a point of order before the Speaker, objecting to the question by Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar, who castigated Minister for Tribal Welfare Ramesh Tawadkar on providing incomplete information about the backlog of ST vacancies in different departments.
Defending his cabinet colleague, Parrikar rose up to raise a point of order on the question, which was immediately objected to by Rane.
“I raise point of order here,” Parrikar said.
Rane quickly questioned Chief Minister, “Show me point of order on the business. I have to know which point of order he is raising,” Rane said to the Speaker. This sparked an altercation between the two senior legislators. Rane raised strong objection to Chief Minister’s repeated point of order during the session.
Replying to the objection, Chief Minister said his point of order was in relation to the current question by the MLA wherein he had asked the information from the Minister for Tribal Welfare, about the departments which he is not incharge of. “The legislator has asked information from the other departments, which Minister for Tribal Welfare is not supposed to answer,” he said.
The chief minister went on to comment that Leader of Opposition should “teach his legislators how to ask the question.”
Rane shot back stating that “he is not a teacher to teach the legislators.” “I am not a teacher. You may be a teacher, I don’t teach my members like how you do,” Rane retorted.
Madkaikar, pointing to the government reply that 1,397 backlog vacancies are there as on date, had sought to know the number of backlog in the Directorate of Panchayats and whether they fulfill all the criteria. The Legislator got furious over what he alleged was incomplete information and no firm reply from the minister.
