Residents of remote Uttarakhand village to boycott LS polls over non-construction of road

Gopeswar (Uttarakhand): The villagers of Dumak in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district have decided to boycott the upcoming Lok Sabha polls over the non-construction of a vital road linking the village with the district headquarters for which they have been agitating for four decades.

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Whenever elections are round the corner, the villagers renew their poll boycott call in the hope of getting their long-standing demand fulfilled. Construction agencies rush equipment to the village raising their hopes, but those are withdrawn as soon as the elections are over.

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Dumak hosts one of the remotest polling stations in Chamoli district.

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