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Death by starvation haunts village in Jharkhand's Dumka -Abhishek Angad

-The Indian Express

Home to some 400 Santhals, an indigenous tribe, Mahuadanr has a cemented road, but most of the house are made of mud, with few pucca houses. The village faces an “acute water shortage” in summers and locals barely eat nutritious food.

Dumka:
In Jharkhand’s Mahuadanr village, which falls under the Anansol Kuruwa panchayat in the Dumka Lok Sabha constituency, JMM party chief Shibu Soren — the sitting MP who is known as ‘Guru ji’ — is very popular. However, there is another Soren whose name crops up often.

Kaleshwar Soren, 45, lived alone in a dilapidated kuccha house in the village. He had damaged his legs, and after his ration card was cancelled because it was not linked to an Aadhaar card, Kaleshwar had to depend on others for food. He sold off many of his belongings to avail rice, but eventually died — allegedly of starvation — on November 11.

According to his sister-in-law Santari Murmu, in his last days Kaleshwar had mortgaged his land, and his children have not been able to reclaim it till now.

“We used to give him food, but we too had little than we could afford. People in this village are generally poor and somehow manage to meet their ends meet,” she said.

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