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MNS’ written exam: 3,156 civic poll ticket seekers appear for tests
As many as 3,156 MNS workers, seeking tickets to contest the forthcoming elections to the six major municipal corporations in the State, appeared for the first-of-its-kind written examination conducted by the party leadership in Mumbai and five other cities on Sunday.
A maximum of 1,208 MNS workers appeared for the written test conducted in Mumbai, where the Raj Thackeray-led party plans to contest all the 227 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is currently ruled by the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. There was equally enthusiastic response in small municipal corporation areas of Pune and Nashik, where as many as 611 and 648 MNS workers appeared for the tests.
While 398 MNS workers sat for the examination at Thane, 188 party workers gave the test at Pimpri-Chinchwad. Nagpur elicited relatively poor response, given that only 104 appeared for the examination in that city.
In the examination, the objective questions that the MNS leadership had posed to its workers were the ones relating to the role and functioning of their respective municipal corporations and the ones pertaining to the print and electronic media.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s initiative to conduct written examination for his party to select candidates for the forthcoming municipal corporation polls, has taken the rival political parties, including the ruling Congress-NCP alliance and Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI (A) combine. He has said that he would similar tests when he chooses candidates for the 2014 State Assembly polls.
“The party activists seeking tickets must have a good understanding of the working of various wings of a municipal corporation and they should be capable of delivering goods to the people who elect them. The written examination is one of the ways to assess their knowledge and capability,” Raj had said last month, when he announced his decision to hold written examination for party workers seeking tickets for the civic polls.
Once the written papers are assessed, the MNS chief will himself interview each and every party worker passing the test. “It is only when the candidates concerned pass the muster in the interview that I will nominate them as candidates for the polls,” Raj has said. This, in effect, means that those MNS workers succeeding in the written test, will have to cross another hurdle — in the form of an interview with their party president himself — before they can expect to contest the forthcoming civic polls on an MNS ticket.
As many as 3,156 MNS workers, seeking tickets to contest the forthcoming elections to the six major municipal corporations in the State, appeared for the first-of-its-kind written examination conducted by the party leadership in Mumbai and five other cities on Sunday.
A maximum of 1,208 MNS workers appeared for the written test conducted in Mumbai, where the Raj Thackeray-led party plans to contest all the 227 seats in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which is currently ruled by the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. There was equally enthusiastic response in small municipal corporation areas of Pune and Nashik, where as many as 611 and 648 MNS workers appeared for the tests.
While 398 MNS workers sat for the examination at Thane, 188 party workers gave the test at Pimpri-Chinchwad. Nagpur elicited relatively poor response, given that only 104 appeared for the examination in that city.
In the examination, the objective questions that the MNS leadership had posed to its workers were the ones relating to the role and functioning of their respective municipal corporations and the ones pertaining to the print and electronic media.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s initiative to conduct written examination for his party to select candidates for the forthcoming municipal corporation polls, has taken the rival political parties, including the ruling Congress-NCP alliance and Opposition Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI (A) combine. He has said that he would similar tests when he chooses candidates for the 2014 State Assembly polls.
“The party activists seeking tickets must have a good understanding of the working of various wings of a municipal corporation and they should be capable of delivering goods to the people who elect them. The written examination is one of the ways to assess their knowledge and capability,” Raj had said last month, when he announced his decision to hold written examination for party workers seeking tickets for the civic polls.
Once the written papers are assessed, the MNS chief will himself interview each and every party worker passing the test. “It is only when the candidates concerned pass the muster in the interview that I will nominate them as candidates for the polls,” Raj has said. This, in effect, means that those MNS workers succeeding in the written test, will have to cross another hurdle — in the form of an interview with their party president himself — before they can expect to contest the forthcoming civic polls on an MNS ticket.
