{"id":68685,"date":"2020-10-08T11:54:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Thenews21.com\/?p=68685"},"modified":"2020-10-08T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:24:14","slug":"bjp-mp-sambhaji-chhatrapati-demands-postponement-of-mpsc-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/bjp-mp-sambhaji-chhatrapati-demands-postponement-of-mpsc-exam","title":{"rendered":"BJP MP Sambhaji Chhatrapati demands postponement of MPSC exam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>@the_news_21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BJP MP Sambhaji Chhatrapati has demanded that the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exam scheduled for October 11 be postponed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it is not postponed, Maratha students will vandalise the exam centres, the Rajya Sabha member said on Wednesday in Navi Mumbai during a meeting of the community members seeking reservations in government jobs and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the exam is being conducted for 200 seats in government jobs, but the number of aspirants is as high as two lakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What if students contract the coronavirus? Who will be responsible for it? asked the BJP leader, who is a descendant of Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Maharashtra Public Service Commission exam scheduled on Sunday should be postponed because the COVID-19 situation in the state is still grim. If the exam is not postponed, students from the Maratha community will vandalise the exam centres,&#8221; the BJP leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said the state government should extend the age limit for the exam and hold it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MPSC conducts recruitment examinations for Group A, B and C posts, among others, in the state administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these exams are generally held in April-May, but have been delayed this year because of the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@the_news_21 BJP MP Sambhaji Chhatrapati has demanded that the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) exam scheduled for October 11 be postponed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. If it is not postponed, Maratha students will vandalise the exam centres, the Rajya Sabha member said on Wednesday in Navi Mumbai during a meeting of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[100,7902,25491,23738,25490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68686,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68685\/revisions\/68686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}