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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Drought-hit Marathwada, Vidarbha disenchanted with Elections 2019 -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

Drought-hit Marathwada, Vidarbha disenchanted with Elections 2019 -Abhiram Ghadyalpatil

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published Published on Apr 21, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 21, 2019
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* On 18 April, these victims of drought will vote, though they have little hope of a positive change irrespective of who wins the elections

* In Latur, which in 2016 became the first city in India to be supplied drinking water by a specially commissioned train, has been the epicentre of this drought

SOLAPUR/ AHMEDNAGAR/MADHA/ OSMANABAD:
It is 2.15pm and the scorching sun makes Valsang village in Solapur district look even starker than it is. Ashabai Bhogappa Kamble, 45, is struggling to extract whatever little water is left at the bottom of a well in a bucket tied to a long rope. In the morning, a tanker contracted by the government had poured around 6,000 litres into the well. “That’s all we have for the day. The next tanker for this well will come tomorrow morning," Kamble says. Nearby, Siddharam Balshingkar, 30, is trying to balance two plastic pots on his bicycle.

Kamble and Balshingkar are landless labourers. For them, the drought means less opportunity to work as farm labourers. On 18 April, these victims of drought will vote, though they have little hope of a positive change irrespective of who wins the elections. “Kaahi farak padat nahi. Nivadnukaanchya veli nete lok khup aashwasana detat aani nivadnukinantar nete tyanchya ghari aani aamhi aamchya ghari (Elections do not matter. During elections, leaders make many promises but after elections, they are sitting comfortably in their homes and we are left to ourselves," Kamble says despondently.

Solapur, from where senior Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde is contesting what he has termed as his last election, goes to polls on Thursday along with nine other constituencies in Marathwada and Vidarbha, all ravaged by Maharashtra’s chronic droughts. In Latur, which in 2016 became the first city in India to be supplied drinking water by a specially commissioned train, has been the epicentre of this drought, along with Osmanabad in Marathwada. There are fodder camps for cattle where government-sourced tankers ferry water four or five times a day all along this long and contiguous trajectory in Vidarbha, Marathwada, and South Maharashtra that comprises parts of Ahmednagar and Madha constituencies too, which go to polls in the next phases.

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