A challenge to UML to preserve its legacy

Here, not only infrastructure like roads, water, electricity, but also essential things like health and education are not paid attention to by the people's representatives. For treatment, common people have to travel a hundred kilometers long to reach Damak or the headquarters of Ilam.

"The sick and injured have been taken to the hospital after being carried for 15 km," lamented local Raghunath Mainali. The sad story of Phakphokthum rural municipality begins after turning left on the Ilam-Ranke road. The condition of the Ranke-Ravi road, which started since Nemwang became the people's representative of this area, is still deplorable. Leila Phuyal of Phakphokthum-6 Deurali says, 'There is no hope of this road being built anymore, we have lost love.' However, the contractor company disappeared after the work was suspended. "Now, the walls have been dug up and abandoned in places", complained Tulsa Phuyal, a local. Since 2056, every candidate has promised to build the road but has not fulfilled it, local Jit Bahadur Thapa complains. "When the leaders ask for votes, they say they will do it today, but after winning the election, they seem to forget their promises," he said.

Similarly, the condition of about 26 and a half km road from Deurali-Phalate-Gajurmukhi is not different from that of Ranke-Ravi road. It has been more than a decade since the construction of this road started. The construction company Roshan-Vishnu JV Kathmandu left without finishing the work on time. The squatter problem in Phakphokthum-6 is also complicated. More than a dozen houses are without parts. They are sad because they have been waiting for years to get parts. Similarly, the locals complain that the agricultural products could not be delivered to the market due to the lack of a fast road in Phakphokthum-7. Subas Nemwang has been a representative of the people for 25 years and the locals are sad because there is no single water source in this area.