Patna: Angry villagers forced a ruling party lawmaker to get down from his swanky car and wade through the muddy, potholed road flooded with drain water after he failed to repair it.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Dr Jitu Charan Ram who represents Kanke assembly seat in Jharkhand state assembly faced angry protests of villagers after he reached a village under his political constituency on Tuesday.
Reports said a population of around 40,000 villagers were routinely forced to wade through the muddy road leading to their Sukurhuttu village for the past four years and had urged the lawmaker to solve the drainage problem and construct a new road. The lawmaker assured them that he would solve their problems soon but he forgot after giving the assurance.
Irate villagers later announced they would burn the effigy of the lawmaker on January 10 but the local BJP leaders urged them to postpone their agitation saying the lawmaker himself would visit them and listen to their woes.
Finally when the lawmakers visited the village on Tuesday, the angry villagers mobbed his car and asked him to come down before they could discuss their problems. However, as he got down, the mob forced the lawmaker to walk through the muddy road and had a feel their pains which they face every day.
“You won’t be able to feel our pain until you walk through the potholed road flooded with drain water,” angry villagers told the lawmaker. And, he had no option but to wade through the marshy passage which dirtied his well-starched new cotton clothes.
According to the villagers, hellish condition prevails in the areas despite the BJP representing their constituency for the past 30 years. They also threatened to boycott voting process if their trouble continued as usual.
The lawmaker again promised to solve their problem very soon. “Their (villagers) anger is just, and their problem will be solved very soon. I have directed the officials in this regard,” the lawmaker told the media on the spot before quickly vanishing from the scene.
