Bengaluru: The Karnataka energy department began door-to-door verification of beneficiaries under the Gruha Jyothi scheme on Wednesday, prompting senior BJP leader R Ashoka to allege that the government was using the exercise to determine eligibility based on income and caste by seeking PAN cards and caste certificates.
The leader of the opposition in the state Assembly claimed that the "government of loot," struggling to find the funds needed to sustain its guarantee schemes, is trying every possible means to deprive lakhs of poor and middle-class people of the benefits of the Gruha Jyothi scheme through this policy U-turn.
