Click to play videoMumbai: Judging by documents dated between June 2006 and February 2007, Member of Maharashtra’s Legislative Council Navnath Awhad has been a busy man. He has been spending money regularly from his Rs 80 lakh per annum MLC corpus for developmental projects all over Maharashtra.
But Awhad has been in coma for three years and has not left his bed at Pune's Dinanath Mangeshkar Hospital since he was first admitted in October 2004.
Shocking? Awhad’s doctors and colleagues can corroborate.
"He was admitted here three years ago after his brain suffered injury due to lack of oxygen during an asthma attack,” says his doctor, Sanjiv Mangrulkar. Agrees Deputy Chairman, Legislative Council, Vasant Davkhare, "He can't even lift a finger. His eyes are open but I'm not sure he is able to register people's presence. He is fed up using a tube, he can't speak.”
But that hasn't stopped his signature from appearing on the legislative council attendance register, month after month, year after year. But a close look reveals all these signatures are different.
Prolonged absence from the legislature is a ground for disqualification and looks like someone has taken up the task for the BJP that could certainly do without this kind of embarrassment.
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