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Written exam to select MNS candidates for polls
Sunday November 20, 2011 10:58:04 AM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Now all
aspiring political leaders for the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (MNS) will have to prove their mettle by passing
exams with flying colours.
Aiming to set a trend and do something unprecedented, the MNS
chief Saturday said the party would conduct a written exam to
select its candidates for the upcoming Mumbai civic polls in
February.
"Eligible candidates who clear the exam would be given tickets to
contest the elections," Thackeray said at an internal party meet
here.
The two-hour exam scheduled Dec 4 will be compulsory for those who
aspire to contest the polls and also the existing corporators and
legislators who wish to re-contest for the seats in their or other
constituencies.
Apart from the Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC),
the test will be conducted for civic bodies of other towns,
including Thane, Pune, Nashik and Nagpur, due for polls early next
year.
The BMC has as many as 227 wards and many MNS candidates are
likely to contest the polls from each ward.
Thackeray said the exam is important and would check the
candidates' knowledge through questions related to various aspects
of the civic administration.
Emphasising that conventional methods of choosing candidates must
change, he said this exercise would set a new trend and change
people's perception.
A panel of independent examiners will be in charge of the
examination.
Thackeray said those who clear the exams would be interviewed
personally by him and that no influence or muscle power will help
the candidates get a ticket if they do not perform well in the
test.
"If required, I will also sit for the exam and another independent
panel of examiners will evaluate my performance," he said.
Similar exams will also be conducted for assembly elections and a
candidate can appear for the test only from one constituency --
either from where he belongs to or intends to contest the polls
from.
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