Voters in Palamu raised slogans of not voting if there is no electricity.

Palamu, 30 October (Hindustan Reporter). The villagers have been demanding for months to provide electricity facility at the upgraded primary school cum polling station number 51 located in Golhana village of Babhandi Panchayat of Haidernagar block of the district. Rural voters reached this center on Wednesday and raised slogans of not voting if there is no electricity, wires, poles.

Rural cum youth activists Anku Singh Rana, Bachchan Singh (ward member), Manish Singh, Upendra Singh, Rahul Singh, Santosh Singh, Sanjay Singh, Arun Singh, Dheeraj Singh, Abhimanyu Singh, Alok Singh, Tinku Singh, Deepak Singh, Durgesh Singh. , Sanjeet Singh, Nagendra Singh, Dhirendra Singh, Ramji Singh, Siddhi Singh, Abhishek Singh and many other voters said that electricity connection was given to the upgraded primary school cum polling station number 51 of this village four years ago. Electric wires and poles were not arranged properly.

The villagers applied several times to the Assistant Electrical Engineer, District Election and Block Election Officer, but no concrete action has been taken. The villagers said that in case of non-availability of electricity in the school, they have to make arrangements for electricity with the help of wood and sticks, due to which there is a possibility of a major incident.

In this regard, Departmental Executive Engineer Chhattarpur, Assistant Engineer Ramprasad Mahato and Junior Engineer Pradeep Kumar Singh have told the villagers that this problem can be solved only after allotment of wires and poles to provide electricity to this polling station, which is about one kilometer away. Will find. The villagers have made it clear that despite prior information, if electricity is not provided here, they will not vote until their demands are met.