NDA presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu’s village to get power for the first time
India Today
The Odisha government has launched electrification work in the Dungursahi hamlet of Droupadi Murmu's ancestral village which had been without electricity connection for years.
The Odisha government has launched electrification work in a portion of Uparbeda, the ancestral village of NDA presidential candidate, Droupadi Murmu, in Mayurbhanj district, after reports of people there living in the dark came to the fore.
However, Murmu does not live in the village now. She had shifted to Rairangpur, a municipal town around 20 kms away from Uparbeda in Kusumi block, decades ago.
The Uparbeda village in Kusumi block, with a population of 3,500, has two hamlets Badasahi and Dungursahi. While Badasahi hamlet is fully electrified, Dungursahi has only 14 households which are yet to get electricity.
A settlement of about 20 families who reside in Dungursahi have not got any electricity connection till date and depend on kerosene lamps to survive in the dark. The local people have to go to the other village which is a kilometer away to charge their mobile phones.
Murmu’s nephew Biranchi Narayan Tudu lives at Dungursahi hamlet along with his wife and two children.
“We had requested many people to provide electricity to our Dungursahi hamlet. However, no one paid any heed,” Biranchi’s wife told reporters.
She said that they have not brought the matter to the notice of Murmu though she visits the village during festivals.
