Praja Foundation ranks city MLAs on performance

Mumbai: Praja Foundation declared a report card of Mumbai Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs’) performance in which Amin Patel of Congress ranks first, followed by Sunil Prabhu of Shiv Sena and Atul Bhatkhalkar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the second and third place. The foundation has surveyed more than 24,290 people, analysed data of business in the legislature and the offences registered against MLAs.

They conducted a survey on the performance of Mumbai MLAs based on their attendance in the legislature, number of questions asked, issues raised, criminal and other offences registered and more. It was found that the attendance and the percentage of questions raised have decreased. Offences registered against MLAs have increased as compared to last year. In 2017, offences registered against 13 MLAs were 36 per cent and in 2018 till date, cases registered against 16 MLAs have raised to 44 per cent, as per the reports of Praja Foundation.

The foundation claims, People are not satisfied with the ruling party MLAs. The performance of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs was better than the BJP and Shiv Sena. They scored 62 per cent and 58 per cent respectively.