When the doors were closed for the leaders, why did this locality of Bhagalpur boycott the elections?:

News India Live, Digital Desk: Election Boycott: As soon as the election season comes, politicians are seen standing at your door with folded hands, making big promises and after winning, they disappear for five years. But this time in Bhagalpur, Bihar, the people have decided to show the leaders their real place. The people of Bhikhanpur locality located in ward number 27 of the city welcomed the leaders not with flowers, but “Election Boycott” Made from posters.

You will find these posters posted on the doors and walls of every house in this locality, on which it is written in clear and bold letters – “No road, no vote.” This is not just a slogan, but the people’s years of pain, anger and lost faith in the system, which has now burst out.

Why did people come out on the streets (at their own doors)?

The story of the people of Bhikhanpur is also like that of many villages and towns of Bihar, where development remains limited only to election promises.

• Roads or a sea of ​​potholes?: Local people say that they have been living a life like hell for years. There is no such thing as a road left in the locality. There are deep and deadly potholes everywhere, which turn into ponds of mud with even a little rain.
• Thousand promises, zero work: People allege that they knocked on everyone’s door, from the Municipal Corporation to the MLA and the Mayor, to solve their problem. Every time he got sweet assurance of getting the road built along with tea and water, but not even a single brick was laid on the road.
• “Enough respect!”: A local citizen said angrily, “The leaders think that we are fools. When elections come, they miss us. Now we have also decided that till the road is not built, there will be ‘no entry’ for any leader in this locality. No one should dare to ask for votes.”

When posters became the voice of the people

These posters put up in Bhikhanpur have now become a topic of discussion in the entire city. These are not just pieces of paper, but the voices of those who were unheard. This matter has become a major embarrassment for the local administration and leaders.

This incident shows that in democracy the public is the real owner. When leaders forget their duties and consider the public as just a ‘vote bank’, the public can also use their biggest right, ‘Boycott to Vote’, to teach them a lesson. Now it remains to be seen whether this ‘Gandhigiri’ of the people of Bhagalpur can awaken the sleeping system or not.