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Ramu does not have a motor bike; he and his family need one desperately. Please pray for this need.
(This motor bike was borrowed so that we could get around)!
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Assembly polls on an LJP ticket but is now in JD(U). He has reportedly bought up 18 dealerships. During a struggle against Kameshwar Paswan, a dealer of Bedauli (Masaurhi), we found that Lakhandev had bought up Kameshwars dealership for Rs. 2 lakh. During a struggle against another dealer of Bedauli, Subas Prasad who had failed to distribute rations to 260 people for 10 months, Lakhandev intervened during our meeting with the SDO, and promised the people that he would distribute 2 months worth of rations on Subas behalf. .
We conducted a sustained struggle against Lakhandev in Devariya (Masaurhi); the Devariya dealership is nominally in his cousins name, but effectively controlled by him. When Lakhandev arrived at Devariya with 1 truckload and one tractor-load of goods, the poor surrounded him to collect 3 months worth of rations. When rations were distributed at the rate of 20 kilos instead of the rightful 25, people were determined to teach him a lesson. Lakhandev smelled trouble and beat a retreat, but the poor not only collected all the rations laden on the truck and tractor, but even got the clerk to open the godown and took away 1000 sacks of grain. We have learnt that Lakhandev has held a meeting with criminals to plan assaults on leaders of this movement. .
At Sarbadahi, (Masaurhi), people took dealer and JD(U) leader Suresh Prasad Singh to task. He had withheld rations for 7 months, siphoning off rations to Masaurhi rather than the village, and beating up anyone who demanded 25 kgs of rations. He had swallowed a total of 20 months worth of rations due to the poor of Vishambharpur and Sarbadahi, the market value of which amounted to more than Rs 14.5 lakh. A past criminal with links with the Bhoomi Sena and Kisan Sangh, and now a close confidante of JD(U) MLA Poonam Devi he would even brandish a rifle and threaten people on occasion. .
When the drought-affected people got tired of pleading in vain for their rations to the BDO-SDO, they surrounded Suresh Prasad Singhs house, broke his door and entered to find him missing. When the DCLR and Marketing Officer came to talk with the angry gathering, they too had to face the wrath of the people. They called in the police and a huge troop of police and CRPF gathered, led by the SDO and DSP, and openly threatened to make rivers of blood flow. Protests against this threat were held all over the block. .
Defying the police threats, people eventually caught Suresh Prasad Singh while he was driving his tractor, tied his hands, publicly punished him and then paraded him in the village. Then the enraged people held him in the village until pending rations were distributed to all people in the village. He distributed one months rations; in addition, people got him to pay the cost of 10 kgs wheat at the rate of Rs. 12 per kg, and 15 kgs rice at the rate of Rs 13 per kg. The people also imposed a fine of one kilo of grain per family which he will be asked to pay in the next instalment. .
At Kharaant (Masaurhi), RJD activist Lal Bihari Yadav had not distributed 6 months worth of rations, and had given 160 coupons (rightfully belonging to the poor) to rich people. When people surrounded his house and prevented him from leaving, he first got his son to retrieve the coupons to return to the rightful owners and gave the cash equivalent of 5 months of rations (wheat at the rate of Rs. 13 per kg and rice at Rs. 15 per kg), promising to give the amount due for the remaining month later. .
At Masaurhi SDO office, Ward No. 13, dealer Pankaj Sharma in collusion with Ward Councillor Devanand Bind (local JD(U) leader) had failed to distribute rations to 245 people for 12 months. He used to sell coupons (for anything from Rs. 50 to Rs. 500 per coupon). It took a militant demonstration at the SDO and Town Council offices to secure retrieval of the coupons and distribution of rations. .
Similarly, at Siriya (Dhanarua), people retrieved 10 months worth of pending rations from RJD strongman Ramanand Yadav. People surrounded his house, found a hoard of grains there and distributed it among 60 people, thrashed him and handed him over to the police station. He is now in jail and the pending rations were distributed by the SDO himself. .
In order to extract 4 months worth of due rations from the dealer at Sevti (Dhanarua) local JD(U) leader Arvind Singh people had to drag the Marketing Officer out of his chamber by .
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