No pucca road, village in assembly speaker’s seat to boycott polls

Aurangabad | Wednesday | 13th March, 2019

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He, however, assured that the road is constructed before the assembly elections later this year. The 500-odd electors in the village want to make their vote count.In the run-up to the 2014 general and assembly elections, candidates from across the parties had promised them that the road would be constructed. Aurangabad: Entry only after building a pucca road to the village.That’s the stern warning the 2,000-odd residents of Kavitkheda village, a modest village about 35 km from here, have given to all candidates keen on contesting the Lok Sabha election from Jalna.The village on the Mumbai–Kolkata national highway is in the assembly constituency of assembly speaker Haribhau Bagde. “The other day I saw the board about villagers announcing their boycott of elections. Even the assembly speaker, while contesting the elections, had promised to get the road built soon.”Residents of Kavitkheda depend on the neighbouring Vadodbazar, a comparatively bigger village, for government health facilities, weekly market and even Zilla Parishad school..