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Youth got their hair shaved in protest against cancellation of bridge construction in Shastri Nagar, movement intensified
Sandy Verma | February 2, 2026 11:24 AM CST

Kushinagar/Bagaha (West Champaran). On Sunday, a meeting cum mass shaving program was organized in Shastrinagar Bagaha under the banner of Shastrinagar-Belvaniya Bridge Construction Sangharsh Committee in protest against the cancellation of Shastrinagar-Belvaniya bridge construction. During this time, hundreds of gathered youth and local citizens including Ravikesh Pathak, Ajay Sahni, Kameshwar Nath Tiwari, Lalbabu Soni, Nandesh Pandey and dozens of friends got their hair shaved and registered a symbolic protest of their extreme disappointment and anger towards the system of the Central Government and the National Highway Ministry. The youth present at the program said in one voice that in the name of bridge construction, the public has been given only lollipops of announcements and assurances for years, while no concrete initiative has been taken in reality. The decision to cancel the bridge construction is a direct betrayal of thousands of people of the area. Addressing the gathering, Sangharsh Samiti members and many socio-political workers including Dayashankar Singh, Nandesh Pandey, Vishal Pandey, Ajay Sahani, Kameshwar Nath Tiwari, Ravikesh Pathak, Lalbabu Soni and Mohd. Kamran Aziz said that this movement is not a fight for any particular party, but for the public interest and the future of the region. The speakers gave a clear warning that unless the path for the construction of the Bagaha-Belvaniya bridge is paved, the agitation of the Sangharsh Committee and the local people will continue in a more aggressive form.At the end of the program, the youth present took a pledge that now there should be no mere assurance, a bridge should be built, otherwise the voice will be raised from the streets to the House. Even if we have to suffer any consequences for this, we will not back down. Is gonna.


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