Now that the Bombay High Court paved the way for Uddhav Thackeray’s Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park, it is time to heed the Shiv Sena chief. He has called it a victory of democracy and appealed to his party workers to participate in the event with gusto. Yet, care should be taken that there is no  harm to a six-decade-old tradition.

Days ago, this edit space had taken off from reports about politicians indulging in one-upmanship about Navratri festivals and celebration dandiyas. Each one was trying to outdo the other. The focus, this space stressed, was not the bigger or brighter dandiya, but the more disciplined dandiyas. In their zeal to outdo each other, political bigwigs need to ensure that decorum and lawful conduct is the name of the game at these dandiya celebrations.