Odhara farmers, orchard owners show anger against all candidates
‘Won’t vote as they did not help us post-floods’
The farmers and orchard owners of Odhara here remained away from the polling today reasoning that they were dismayed with the candidates in the fray, who according to them did nothing for their relief and rehabilitation post-floods.
The farmers and orchard owners who claimed to have suffered immense loss to their farmlands during the floods said: “We won’t vote for any of the candidates in the fray as nobody among them came to our help post-floods”.
“Why should we vote for them (candidates), when they don’t even show any sympathy to us when we lost all our earnings and our orchards were wiped out,” Ali Muhammad, a resident said.
“Our farmlands have been destroyed, fruit plants wiped out and we have suffered huge financial losses. But nobody bothered to even provide us any kind of relief. Now it is their turn. They were begging for votes but we have already decided to boycott,” Manzoor Ahmad said.
By 3 PM, just 191 votes out of total 999 had been cast at the polling booth in Odhara Middle School.
“Only the politically affiliated person came out to vote, but common people in this area have not been provided any relief or rehabilitation by the state government,” the locals claimed.
