Municipal polls: Parties start process seeking applications from aspirants

City NCP chief Sunil Tingre said, “Everyone who is interested in contesting the PMC polls as NCP candidates can collect the printed application form and submit it after filling it in the party office between December 8 and 18.”

Party leaders will scrutinise all the applications and later senior leaders will take interviews of the aspirants to decide who will get the party candidature, he said.

City Congress chief Arvind Shinde said there are many aspirants in the party to contest the civic polls. “The aspirants have been urged to collect and submit the filled application form. They should do it between December 9 and 13,” he said.

Shiv Sena (UBT) city unit chief Sanjay More said the party has already started distributing application forms to aspirants. “The aspirants should submit their applications by December 11 along with a fee of Rs 10,000,” he said, adding the party has been getting good response from the aspirants for the PMC elections.