Majhi said the meager food stock at home was not sufficient to last through the three-day strike that concluded Tuesday. “We fed our children and were forced to remain hungry ourselves,” Majhi revealed.
The irony of having to sleep on empty stomach due to the strike called by the party which he voted to power through the Constituent Assembly elections in hopes of ending poverty was not lost on Majhi and he fumed, “They asked for our votes selling us dreams about land. And now we have to stay hungry in lack of work due to their strike.”
A dozen Majhi families of Auraha-2 also had similar plight during these three days. Some ate roasted maize while others even cooked wild grasses to assuage hunger in lack of work due to the banda.
The community doesn´t even understand the objective of the movement and is irked at having to be so severely affected by it. “We have to fill our stomach at any cost,” said Madhu Majhi whose family survives operating a pushcart. “We don´t have any savings. These types of frequent strikes have direct bearing on our hunger,” he added.
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