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When we were trying to live peacefully with whatever facilities we have, they deployed security personnel in the hills. The CRPF personnel stay inside the old building of the panchayat; work on the new panchayat office is going on smoothly,” he added. I support their election boycott call,” he added.This tribe came to the limelight for protesting against bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills and saying no to mining through gram sabhas organised in the hills in 2013. Police and security personnel have snatched our happiness from us,” said Pusika.Lada Sikaka, a senior leader of the samiti, said their people fall ill by drinking contaminated water. “Even the security personnel deployed in the area have taken shelter in Trilochanpur panchayat office and we cannot carry out work there..