Dhurki: Due to non-construction of bridge at Balchaura located in Kanhar river of Dhurki block area, villagers of both Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh have laid foundation stone for construction of bridge in Balchaura twice by road construction department and public representatives. Angry over the non-construction yet, the villagers of both the states held a collective meeting at Balchaura on Wednesday.
At the same time, a large number of villagers from different villages of Dhurki block and neighboring state of Chhattisgarh had participated in the meeting. During this local Bhaiyaram Vishwakarma, Gopal Kesari, Basant God, Shambhu Singh Kharwar, Shivnath Singh Kharwar, Nilkanth Singh Kharwar, Raghuveer Singh Kharwar, Harilal Singh Kharwar, Narayan Singh Kharwar, Lakhan Parahiya, Vishambhar Prajpati, Kisun God, Manijar Singh Kharwar, Ramsaran Singh Kharwar Bhuyan, Harvansh Singh Kharwar. And Uttam Singh Kharwar, Mukhdev Yadav from Dhauli village of Chhattisgarh Balrampur district, Budhinarayan Gupta from Indravatipur, Sarpanch Rajesh Singh Kharwar from Barwahi, Ajay Prasad Hiralal Pandav and other villagers told that for the construction of a bridge in the well-known Balchaura located on the Kanhar river, the people of the area have been informed. The foundation stone was laid for the construction of a bridge in Balachaura twice by with great lava and Lashkar.
But due to the apathy and lack of will of the local public representatives, the bridge has not been constructed so far, the said villagers said that apart from Jharkhand, people from different villages of the neighboring state of Chhattisgarh have also participated in this meeting. The said people said that due to non-construction of the bridge, the traffic stops completely due to Kanhar river during the rainy season. At the same time, after the end of the rainy season, thousands of people risk their lives every day, fearing in the rising stream of Kanhar river, from Chhattisgarh to Jharkhand and beyond.
At the same time, the villagers expressed their anger and said that in the absence of a bridge, a dozen people going on a boat had drowned in the cheeks of Kaal. At the same time, since then till today the public representatives of this area have been making false speech assurances and laying the foundation stone for the construction of a bridge to us. The said villagers also told that on November 26 last year, the foundation stone of Balchaura bridge was laid by the then Chief Minister Raghuvar Das, after that on May 24, 2019, regional MLA Bhanu Pratap Shahi did Bhumipujan and also got his beard done and said that the MLA He had not shaved his beard for a year and got his beard done after Bhumipujan in Balachaura for the construction of the bridge.
The said villagers said that on the day of Bhumipujan by the MLA, thousands of people from both the states had reached Balchaura. And the MLA had said after Bhumipujan that he would not get his beard done for the construction of Balachaura pool until he got the approval of the bridge and laid the foundation stone.
At the same time, four years have passed after that but the bridge has not been built yet, the said villagers said that it has been decided unanimously in the meeting that if the bridge will not be built in Balchaura before the upcoming assembly and Lok Sabha elections, then they will not be able to vote in any election. MP candidates and MLAs will not vote for the candidate and will boycott the voting. The villagers said that whenever the elections come, then all the people show the promise of getting a bridge constructed in Balchaura for votes. But they don't build the bridge.