Angered by the lack of access road from Bholanath flyover bridge towards Ishakchak, the people of the eastern region announced to boycott the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Not only this, the people of Ishakchak, Laluchak and nearby localities protested by putting up posters with slogans like if the road to the locality is not connected to the flyover, they will not vote, in their homes and shops. Called for continuous agitation regarding this.
Have expressed their protest by protesting
Earlier, hundreds of people from localities like Ishaakchak, Laluchak Angari, Shivpuri, Lodipur, Sarmaspur etc. blocked the Ishaakchak to Kachari road several times. Protested by protesting including arson. FIR was also registered against many people in this. Despite this, the anger of the people here is not stopping. According to the people, ever since the protests have been going on, no public representative has put their demands on hold instead of taking them forward.
Population of one and a half lakh will be affected
Problem increased by not providing contact path
Local resident Pramod Kumar Singh, disappointed with the administration, 1.5 lakh population of Ishakchak, Ishwar Nagar, Litchi Bagicha, LIC Colony, Gymnasium, B Tola, Muslim Tola, Laluchak, Bhatta, Lodipur, Samaspur, Angari boycotted the vote in the Lok Sabha elections. has announced. Actually, to get rid of the Bholanath bridge, people had demanded a flyover bridge, but now by not providing a connection road, their problem has increased. This area will become an island during the rainy season.
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Senior social worker Babul Vivek said that the people here will have to face more problems in transportation than before. Will go away after being close to the city. To cover a distance of 200 metres, one will have to cover a distance of two kilometres. Be it school children or employed people or daily wage earners, everyone will have to face problems. The situation here is becoming hellish during rainy days. People have to pass through the pond-like road to catch their train. Many times the train was also missed. Patients find it difficult to reach the hospital from here.
People demonstrated in support of the demands
On Thursday, more than 50 people including Siddharth Mandal, Pyare Hind, Rajiv Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Nilesh Kumar demonstrated in support of the demands. Local shopkeeper Vipul Kumar Singh said that after a long struggle of the people of this area, approval was given for the construction of this flyover bridge, but the people of this area were not given access road. People are feeling cheated.
requested for approach road
After getting the approval for the construction of the bridge, people ranging from public representatives to officials appealed for an approach road from the proposed flyover towards Ishakchak and Dictionary Road. No public representative or administrative official came forward to understand or solve their problems. Vijay Kumar Yadav said that being angry with the attitude of public representatives and officials, he decided to boycott the vote.
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