AHMEDABAD: There is a general belief that once a politician gets elected and comes to power his or her financial worries are things of the past. However, there are some elected public representatives whose financial status was below poverty line (BPL) and were eligible for government benefits for BPL. Once they got elected and came to power they lost their BPL status despite no change in their financial situation.
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) recently retracted BPL cards of four sitting councillors. Manjula Thakor, municipal councillor from Saraspur ward, Dishant Thakor from Asarwa ward, Hira Parmar from Chandlodia and Gita Parmar are no longer eligible for government schemes for BPL as their BPL status has been retracted. In the last 15 years, the civic body has cancelled 15 councillors' BPL cards because of the state government's BPL 2007 and 2010 guidelines.
