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Ram Vilas Paswan's village still in lantern age

Khagaria (Bihar): Believe it or not, there is no electricity in Lok Janshakti Party's chief Ram Vilas Paswan's native village.Although Paswan is rubbing shoulders with BJP's prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi, his native village Shaharbanni

IANS Updated on: April 28, 2014 16:18 IST
There is no electricity in 44 revenue villages of 21 panchayats in Alauli block, more than four and half decades after Paswan was elected as a legislator from the Alauli assembly seat, now part of the flood-prone Khagaria parliamentary seat.

"It is a curse to live without electricity. Politicians have hardly shown interest to provide basic infrastructure like electricity to us," says Shayamnandan Sada, who belongs to the Mushhar community, a Mahadalit, the poorest among Dalits.

Paswan's younger brother Pasupati Kumar Paras has represented Alauli in the state assembly for over two decades. He was defeated in 2010 assembly polls.

"Alauli did not see much of development during Paras's tenure as a legislator," said Sada, a school teacher.

It is not only Alauli, but people of nearly 50 of 129 panchayats in Khagaria are living without electricity.

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