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People demonstrated demanding to build the bridge.
Railway workers Vikas Vistar Manch on Friday took out a protest march in the city demanding construction of a flyover on Gumti 53A railway track of Samastipur city. People said that immediately after the elections, the Samastipur MP said that the construction of the flyover would take one month.
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Angry that the construction of the bridge has not started, the Rail Vikas and Vistaar Manch workers gathered near the DRM Chowk Kali Mandir from the city and took out a procession. During the procession, people were seen raising slogans to start the construction work of the bridge. He also warned against unrest.
People protested by taking out a procession.
March turned into a meeting
The people’s march passed through the city’s SP Road, Golumber Stadium, Collectorate, Government Bus Stand, City Police Station, Municipal Corporation Office, DRM Office and again turned into a meeting after reaching Kali Stan Chowk. The meeting was chaired by Shankar Prasad Sah, a retired Manch teacher.
CPI(ML) Surendra Prasad Singh, Ashok Rai, Vishwanath Singh Hazari of Congress, RJD Ram Vinod Paswan, Vishwanath Ram, Rakesh Kumar Thakur, Shashibhushan Sharma of Sugar Mill Mazdoor Union, Lokesh Raj of AISA, Deepak Kuhuvek Yaduvanh, Himans. Dozens of speakers including Sushil Kumar Rai, Shahid Hussain addressed the gathering.
In his speech as the keynote speaker, Manch convener Shatrughan Rai Panji said that the Manch has been raising the demand for the construction of flyovers at Bhola Talkies, Muktapur and Dalsinghsarai Railway Gumti in various forums since 2014. Also in 2016-17, the Railway Ministry allocated an amount of 105 million for the three bridges. But, the construction work of the bridge did not start due to some technical problems including the approval of the state and part of the state.
MP Nithanand Rai reportedly shared the information about the construction work started on Dalsinghsarai Rail Gumti before the Lok Sabha elections. On the other hand, the newly elected Member of Parliament Shambhi Chaudhary informed the Bihar Cabinet about the transfer of the pending work as soon as she returned from the swearing-in ceremony in Parliament.
The members of the forum went to the rally.
There was a claim to start construction work on a bridge
There was a claim to start the bridge construction work within a month. More than three months have passed since the lawsuit was filed. Not even a sound of construction work starting could be heard in the distance. Treating this promise as a breach of promise to the people of Samastipur, the Collector on a series of agitations, including the DRM ministry’s grau, a railway jacket, a demand to start bridge construction work.
Organizer emeritus CPI district standing committee member Surendra Prasad Singh, while addressing the gathering, said that blaming the police and arresting the Hakimabad anti-rape and murder movement was a reprehensible act. This is the first incident in the history of Samastipur. The place where the police administration crushes the Jan Tantric movement with sticks. In protest against this action by the police, demands were made to release the detainees, arrest those accused of rape and murder, and stop the increase in murder-crime-rape.
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