Mail News Service
Jadugoda, March 27: No roads, no pathways, no drinking water, frugal power supply through wires hanging on rickety bamboo poles � that has been the living condition of generations of Sanspur village denizens since one can remember.
Sanspur, a hamlet in Matigoda Panchayat under Mosabani Block, is a mirror of horrendous living conditions. The villagers held a meeting today and decided to boycott the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections until and unless their causes were looked into.
After the meeting, the villagers said that even after 70 years of independence, there is no accessible road to the village. There is no clean water for consumption. The electric bamboo poles are rickety and power supply is in name only. MPs and MLAs forget all about their promises to the villagers once they have won the elections. As such, Sanspur villagers may not cast their precious votes in the Lok Sabha polls.
Raju Mahto, a Sanspur villager said, �Marriage parties do not come to the village because there is no road. Quite a few boys and girls have attained marriageable but this lack of road, no one wants to go in for matrimonial negotiations.�
Mushi Mahto who was idling nearby stated rather vehemently, �I have been living in Sanspur Ambagan since 1934. There is only one hand-pump in the whole village and the water pumped out is putrid. If someone falls ill, people have to carry the person on a cot to the UCIL Hospital by crossing the Gurra River. During monsoon, the problems multiply. Once the Galudih Barrage sluice gates are locked, people have to risk their lives to cross the river to attend to important work.�
The villagers who attended the meeting were an irate lot. Among those who attended the meeting and decided to boycott the LS polls were Mushi Mahto, Virendra Kumar, Sona Mati, Raghunath Mahto, Raj Kumar Mahto, Vikas Mahto, Rahul Mahto, Virendra Mahto, Yogendra Mahto, Rajeshwar Singh, Vijay Singh, Baldev Mahto, Nandlal Mahto, Bhola Mahto and many other villagers.
